Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:42:35 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: wine on amd64 Message-ID: <200704101442.37535.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <20070409172850.GA32720@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <539c60b90704090937m5b6a2784l2ebfd97871a6b5a3@mail.gmail.com> <20070409172850.GA32720@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Monday 09 April 2007 19:28:50 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > 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 linux (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 not ;) > > Extra patches, I guess. Why not look into it and see what needs to > be added to our port? Wine runs win32 programs. It needs to be built as a 32bit program linked with 32bit libraries. The ports/package system can't handle 32bit code on amd64.
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