Sean Kormilo sean@kormilo.ca writes:
I'm interested in porting Wine to run in native x86_64 mode, and was wondering if anyone had attempted to do such a thing already? I notice that there does not appear to be any support in CVS to do this, but figured that perhaps someone else is already undertaking such an effort.
My main motivation for doing so has to do with video driver support, in that the 32bit "emulated" applications are unable to use the 64bit 3D accelerated drivers, and fall back to software rendering - which is less than ideal. While this may eventually be resolved by the device drivers, I'd rather not wait for them.
I hope you realize that a 64-bit Wine is not going to let you run Win32 binaries, so it will only solve your problem if you have either a Win64 version of your app, or a Winelib app. But as long as you are aware of that, by all means go ahead, I don't think anybody else is working on that at the moment.