---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> Date: 5 March 2010 15:17 Subject: Another distro with 64-bit Wine by default To: Wine Develop <wine-devel at winehq.org> Cc: Marcus Meissner <marcus at jet.franken.de> It seems that another distro, SuSE 11.x, has Wine-64 compiled by default for x86_64 platforms. That explains all the issues people been having on SuSE lately. Marcus, could you please create a separate package wine-64 instead and build 32-bit Wine by default for x86_64 arch instead? Vitaliy.
Technically, will it EVER be possible to run 32 bit applications on a 64 bit version of WINE? If not, why not? Can't 32 bit processes be emulated?
tpreitzel wrote:> Technically, will it EVER be possible to run 32 bit applications on a 64 bit version of WINE? If not, why not?No. 32-bit apps require 32-bit libraries. tpreitzel wrote:> Can't 32 bit processes be emulated?Yes, at a huge cost. You will still need 32-bit Wine to run 32-bit apps. The goal is to make 32-bit & 64-bit Wines nicely coexists and work together to run mix of 32/64-bit apps. Something like your 64-bit distro doing to run 32-bit programs.