I'm wondering whether it would be useful to discuss 64-bit support in Wine at wineconf this year. I'm interested in feedback on whether it's a useful topic.
With games in particular, 64-bit seems to be becoming a more common requirement, especially with newer DirectX 11 games (which may start running in wine ... sometime).
I guess the basics work on Intel Linux. Several issues remain, however:
- OS X support: compiler toolchains are an issue, there are problems with thread-local storage. - ARM support: I think Andre H. believes that 64-bit will be hard to support on ARM. As far as I know there aren't yet a lot of real-world use-cases for that, but there are certainly a lot of ARM chips around nowdays and maybe Windows 10 will start appearing on ARM devices. - MSI: I think there are MSI limitations which prevent some 64-bit apps from installing (e.g., bug 29941) . I think this blocks 64-bit MS Office. - Mono / .NET ? - Other ... ?
It might be that there's not a great deal to do at wineconf other than catalog the issues. If it's worth a short (not an hour - maybe if we have some 10-15 minute segments) discussion while everyone is in the same place, I'd be happy to try and catalog them.
On 8 June 2015 at 16:42, Josh DuBois duboisj@codeweavers.com wrote:
I'm wondering whether it would be useful to discuss 64-bit support in Wine at wineconf this year. I'm interested in feedback on whether it's a useful topic.
I have the impression that there's not that much to discuss. I.e., I think the people working on this are generally aware of the various issues. Of course I'm biased in that I think technical issues are usually much better discussed on the mailing list. Perhaps if you were to give a short overview of the current state and issues people would find that interesting.
On a related note, one thing I sometimes wonder about when WineConf comes up is what we're trying to achieve with the various talks/discussions/etc. It's probably unfair to say we're just trying to fill all the time slots (although that did in fact happen at least once), but I personally wouldn't blame anyone that came away with that impression either.
On 6/8/15 10:45 AM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
I have the impression that there's not that much to discuss. I.e., I think the people working on this are generally aware of the various issues.
Fair enough. The mailing list may well be better suited for whatever is needed.
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