Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:01:14 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> Cc: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: wine on amd64 Message-ID: <20070410190114.GA72575@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200704101442.37535.tijl@ulyssis.org> References: <539c60b90704090937m5b6a2784l2ebfd97871a6b5a3@mail.gmail.com> <20070409172850.GA32720@xor.obsecurity.org> <200704101442.37535.tijl@ulyssis.org>
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--opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:42:35PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > 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 ;) > >=20 > > Extra patches, I guess. Why not look into it and see what needs to > > be added to our port? >=20 > 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. Well it can, you just need to also have 32-bit versions of all the other ports too. It is true that no-one has really worked on this, but it's not technically difficult. Kris --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFGG976Wry0BWjoQKURAgOPAJ44zcr8pXlVjJMsqK7vGrA3gTXxsQCWM4C3 86OuxC5dwHFNeczzvj3cfg== =ifSZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga--
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