Wine and x86_64

[dragoran]

Andreas Bierfert wrote:

>On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 08:56:21 +0100
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>>it should build with a configure flag (--enable-win64 ) but then it only 
>>will be able to run 64bit windows binarys (and there are not much of them).
>>wine-i386 should be in the x86_64 repo too.
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>First of all:
>It currently does not build for me on x86_64 with the --enable-win64 flag set
>although I am trying to get it working. Wine upstream said that it would take
>another year or so till 64bit wine actually would do any good so we might think
>of including it in FE devel _after_ FC5 branching.
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I have never tryed it because the lack of 64bit windows apps.

>What my plans are nevertheless is to include wine.i386 in the x86_64 repository
>as this is what most people will want atm anyway and make the x86_64 version of
>wine parallel installable to the i386 version (however that will work is another
>issue I am thinking about). So maybe we will have some solution within the next
>weeks for the i386 version getting added to the x86_64 FE repo (please
>suggestions on who, how, when, what are very much welcome). For the time being
>just install the i386 version on your x86_64 manually (will most likely need to
>install some .i386 rpms from core but should work via yum). It works just fine
>here.
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thats what I am doing now.

>- Andreas
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