From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 9 17:20:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC0D1065673 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:20:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792258FC18 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:20:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n69HK5Ui067186; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:20:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CB9D6BAAA; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:20:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:20:04 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Adam Vande More Message-ID: <20090709172004.GC63043@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <6201873e0907082310m14ca17c3r963efe4f682ce380@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6201873e0907082310m14ca17c3r963efe4f682ce380@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: kxorrao , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:20:07 -0000 --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:10:58AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, kxorrao wrote: >=20 > > What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe > > files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? > > > > > It's not a terribly big port. Compile it and check. Generally if there = are > problems with port on a specific platform, it will not build. Use regular > wine/avoid emulators within emulators if at all possible. The wine port only works on i386: # grep ARCHS /usr/ports/emulators/wine/Makefile ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3D i386 If I understood correctly, the problem is that wine is a 32-bit program. See http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit It would need 32-bit versions of all the libraries that it uses. The FreeBSD ports system doesn't currently isn't equipped to handle this. Not that this would be impossible, but nobody has bothered.=20 The concensus seems (and rightly so IMHO) to be that development effort is better spent cleaning up 32-bit programs so they can run on amd64 natively than providing a 32-bit infrastructure on amd64 when you can easily run 32-bit programs on FreeBSD i386 if necessary. It is possible to use a 32-bit jail on amd64. If you install the ports tree in that jail you could perhaps build wine? I haven't tried this, though. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpWJsQACgkQEnfvsMMhpyW7awCeJqeL2WHlUE4dnIckOK50nNnh 7SMAn1FS+SEJA9ipse7cuoFX2yxHr684 =0yQk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi--