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