Wine install on Fedora 14 x86_64?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 21 19:51:50 UTC 2010


On 11/20/10 5:35 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Martin<kevintm at ameritech.net>  wrote:
>>
>> On 11/19/2010 10:13 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> Yeah, so it appears the 64bit wine does indeed pull in the 32bit
>>> version. :(
>>>
>>> I suppose there aren't many 64bit native windows apps and most people
>>> want to be able to run either?
>>>
>>> kevin
>> Ah, I guess that explains it.  Would have thought that installing a 64bit wine would install a "64 bit windows" which *can* run 32
>> bit apps.
> Interestingly enough Windows XP 64bit runs 32bit applications under
> it's own "compatibility layer", WOW64 (Windows on Windows 64)...
The Wine project is working diligently on implementing WOW64 and the 
Windows64/32 thunking that is needed.  I don't know what version of Wine 
Fedora includes, but the current development version is 1.3.7.  This 
includes much of the WOW64 code.

James McKenzie



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