Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:01:17 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wine on amd64 Message-ID: <20070409220117.GB15059@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90704090937m5b6a2784l2ebfd97871a6b5a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90704090937m5b6a2784l2ebfd97871a6b5a3@mail.gmail.com>
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--Y5rl02BVI9TCfPar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > Hi, question of the day: >=20 > Why does the wine port complain that it will not build on my 6.2/amd64 > machine? A quick search around winehq.com seems to indicate that the lin= ux > (kubuntu, debian) guys compile wine on their 64-bit platforms??? And you > know how we *hate* to let them think they have something we bsd-ites do n= ot > ;) This has been covered on the mailing list several times. In short: install FreeBSD x86 if you want wine. Depending on the app that you need you might be better off running windows in an emulator like qemu. Wine is a desktop app, and the benefit of 64-bit on a typical desktop system is not that large (I'm running an amd64 desktop system, but that's more a "because I can" thing that that I really need it). Since it's much easier to install the x86 version of FreeBSD, nobody has bothered to port wine to amd64 (which would be decidedly non-trivial, if even possible). The way linux does it, AFAICT is to run a 32-bit chroot environment. This means that you have to install 32-bit versions of _all_ the libraries that wine depends on in the chroot. Which has significant consequences for the ports environment (again non-trivial), unless you want to install everything by hand. Both approaches would soak up a lot of resources that nobody has been willing to spend on it. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --Y5rl02BVI9TCfPar Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGGretEnfvsMMhpyURAtslAJ9Urk8S2Jkaqa6e1LV8gQikVYUALQCgiCnl 5R6rT5qqOX2pptnfcny9wEU= =3h0n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Y5rl02BVI9TCfPar--
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