Re: Wine package lacking in x64 arch

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Ken Williams <kw-ARpYfD5Y4yUD2rJj/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 Jun 2010 13:21:30 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
>>  Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Ken Williams <kw-ARpYfD5Y4yUD2rJj/[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 06 Jun 2010 11:28:25 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
>> >> Hi All !
>> >>
>> >> I am looking for Wine package for Mandriva Linux 2010, but it seems to
>> >> be lacking.
>> >>
>> >> SRPM found, but the x64 package is not built !!! It should be in "main"
>> >>  repo.
>> >>
>> >> Why?
>> >>
>> >> I have looked at two different mirrors:
>> >> http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandriva/mandrivalinux/official/2010.0/x86
>> >>_64 /media/ ftp://mirror.isoc.org.il/mandriva/official/2010.0/x86_64/
>> >
>> > Hi Alexey, I have had better success with mono that with wine, if your
>> > windoze app is written and compiled as .NET it will often run really well
>> > under mono, I don't suppose your app is .NET though ?
>>
>> My apps are Win32, not .NET. So I need Wine.
>>
>> BTW I have bought Powerpack and hope that Mandriva helps me.
>>
>
> That might be your problem Win32 = 32 bit there could be problems porting it
> to 64 bit for wine, so maybe that is why it is missing ?
>
> I use the 32 bit Mandriva Powerpack even though I am using an amd 64 cpu
>

Very unlickely.

Win32 subsystem works on Windows64 (via WoW64), so from architecture
standpoint there is no reason why Wine can't work on Linux64.

So I don't buy into your argument.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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