64bit Wine?

[J. Grant]

Hello

I'm considering getting an Opteron.  With this being a 64bit CPU I 
wondered if there would be any issues with using WINE to make use of 
win32 software on this 64bit CPU.


Kind regards


JG

p.s. I'm not subscribed to this list from this email address, so please 
include my email address in any replies.

[Marcus Meissner]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:18:57PM +0000, J. Grant wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm considering getting an Opteron.  With this being a 64bit CPU I 
> wondered if there would be any issues with using WINE to make use of 
> win32 software on this 64bit CPU.

There are no issues.

SUSE LINUX 9.0 for AMD64 is capable of running all WINE products,
including regular WINE, CrossOver Office, CrossOver Plugin and WineX
in the 32bit compat mode.

Ciao, Marcus

[Jeremy White]

> > I'm considering getting an Opteron.  With this being a 64bit CPU I 
> > wondered if there would be any issues with using WINE to make use of 
> > win32 software on this 64bit CPU.
>
> There are no issues.
>
> SUSE LINUX 9.0 for AMD64 is capable of running all WINE products,
> including regular WINE, CrossOver Office, CrossOver Plugin and WineX
> in the 32bit compat mode.

Okay, I read that to mean that you can run already built
32 bit binary versions of Wine.

What about compiling?  Would compiling Wine on an Opteron
work?  Hmm.  I suppose you could cross compile to 32 bit,
couldn't you.

[Marcus Meissner]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:02:37AM -0600, Jeremy White wrote:
> > > I'm considering getting an Opteron.  With this being a 64bit CPU I 
> > > wondered if there would be any issues with using WINE to make use of 
> > > win32 software on this 64bit CPU.
> >
> > There are no issues.
> >
> > SUSE LINUX 9.0 for AMD64 is capable of running all WINE products,
> > including regular WINE, CrossOver Office, CrossOver Plugin and WineX
> > in the 32bit compat mode.
>
> Okay, I read that to mean that you can run already built
> 32 bit binary versions of Wine.
>
> What about compiling?  Would compiling Wine on an Opteron
> work?  Hmm.  I suppose you could cross compile to 32 bit,
> couldn't you.

Well, I do ;)

SUSE 9.0 comes with full biarch toolchain support on AMD64.

Before you start, install additionaly to the default packages:
	glibc-devel-32bit
	freetype2-devel-32bit
	XFree86-devel-32bit
	XFree86-Mesa-devel-32bit
	fontconfig-devel-32bit
	openssl-devel-32bit
	ncurses-devel-32bit
	alsa-32bit
	and any dependend rpms.

Then:
	export LD="ld -m elf_i386"

	CC="gcc -m32" AS="gcc -c -m32" \
	./configure --prefix=/usr --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
	make depend all

The -m32 switches gcc to 32bit mode.

If you have arts-devel installed, you might need to patch
dlls/winmm/winearts/Makefile and replace lib64 by lib.

You will also need attached winebuild patch that uses "LD" from the environment.

Ciao, Marcus

[J. Grant]

Marvelous,

Thanks for the responce guys.

JG


on the 02/12/03 16:06, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:02:37AM -0600, Jeremy White wrote:
> > > > I'm considering getting an Opteron.  With this being a 64bit CPU I 
> > > > wondered if there would be any issues with using WINE to make use of 
> > > > win32 software on this 64bit CPU.
> > >
> > > There are no issues.
> > >
> > > SUSE LINUX 9.0 for AMD64 is capable of running all WINE products,
> > > including regular WINE, CrossOver Office, CrossOver Plugin and WineX
> > > in the 32bit compat mode.
> >
> > Okay, I read that to mean that you can run already built
> > 32 bit binary versions of Wine.
> >
> > What about compiling?  Would compiling Wine on an Opteron
> > work?  Hmm.  I suppose you could cross compile to 32 bit,
> > couldn't you.
>
> Well, I do ;)
>
> SUSE 9.0 comes with full biarch toolchain support on AMD64.
>
> Before you start, install additionaly to the default packages:
>   glibc-devel-32bit
>   freetype2-devel-32bit
>   XFree86-devel-32bit
>   XFree86-Mesa-devel-32bit
>   fontconfig-devel-32bit
>   openssl-devel-32bit
>   ncurses-devel-32bit
>   alsa-32bit
>   and any dependend rpms.
>
> Then:
>   export LD="ld -m elf_i386"
>
> CC="gcc -m32" AS="gcc -c -m32" \
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
>   make depend all
>
> The -m32 switches gcc to 32bit mode.
>
> If you have arts-devel installed, you might need to patch
> dlls/winmm/winearts/Makefile and replace lib64 by lib.
>
> You will also need attached winebuild patch that uses "LD" from the environment.
>
> Ciao, Marcus