Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:47:05 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: wine on amd64 Message-ID: <20070411204705.GA12291@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90704111037x12b36b0re65a1ec1fc1dcaeb@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90704090937m5b6a2784l2ebfd97871a6b5a3@mail.gmail.com> <20070409172850.GA32720@xor.obsecurity.org> <200704101442.37535.tijl@ulyssis.org> <20070410190114.GA72575@xor.obsecurity.org> <539c60b90704111037x12b36b0re65a1ec1fc1dcaeb@mail.gmail.com>
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--M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:37:03AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > On 4/10/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > > >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 ;) > >> > > >> > 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. > > > >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 > > > > > Is there already a means for building a particular port as 32 bits on a > 64-bit machine? Not really, this is what I mean by work needed. Kris --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGHUlIWry0BWjoQKURAgwcAJ4zvhX+kE5+PaC54U1n2zojiG/a3ACeJJze m+CItNW1Cr4Q8EyDVGR2M00= =KY6U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO--
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