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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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