wine on x86_64? (was: rawhide report: 20070604 changes)

[Niels Weber]

2007/6/4, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>:
> it seems that now x86_64 builds are available for ubuntu/debian, see:
> http://winehq.org/site/download-deb
> and in wine release notes for 0.9.38 there is in particular
>   - Many 64-bit compilation fixes.
> so it seems actively followed by upfront.
> Is there any plan to have a 64 bit build so that we can avoid at all
> the annoying i386 dependencies for our best-of-all fc7-fc8?
>
> I'm getting rid of the most i386 packages, after passing from rawhide
> to fc7 (see past multilib dependency problems), but it seems that wine
> carries with itself many other ones....

The way I understand this is that a 64bit wine wouldn't help you much
as most Windows applications are 32bit and you would only be able to
run 64bit Windows programs under a 64bit wine.

Niels