Re: disabling wow64, testing 64-bit wine-mono P/invoke

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 3:45 AM BST Vincent Povirk wrote:
> > Is there any way of doing this with 64-bit wine and 64-bit wine-mono?
>
> Currently, Wine does not have the ability to load pure .NET PE images
> in a 64-bit process.
>
> Ntdll needs to call _CorValidateImage during the loading process.
> _CorValidateImage needs to convert the image, in memory, to the
> correct architecture.
>
> It's complicated, and I don't have a solution.

Actually you do :-).

Using
http://madewokherd.nfshost.com/omgsecret/mono-64bit-exe.tar.gz
from
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30518

It is a bit dated, but does the job.

I was very confused by both of
libmono-2.0-x86_64.dll  libmono-2.0-x86.dll  MonoPosixHelper-x86_64.dll  MonoPosixHelper-x86.dll
in c:/windows/mono/mono-2.0/bin/

In fact libmono-2.0-x86_64.dll MonoPosixHelper-x86_64.dll
are never used, at the moment.

When 64-bit mono loads a .NET PE image which then P/Invoke,
it does so P/Invoke to 64-bit dlls.

disabling wow64, testing 64-bit wine-mono P/invoke

[Vincent Povirk]

> I was very confused by both of
> libmono-2.0-x86_64.dll  libmono-2.0-x86.dll  MonoPosixHelper-x86_64.dll  MonoPosixHelper-x86.dll
> in c:/windows/mono/mono-2.0/bin/
>
> In fact libmono-2.0-x86_64.dll MonoPosixHelper-x86_64.dll
> are never used, at the moment.

Correct. Alexandre insisted we include 64-bit builds anyway. In
theory, they would work if Wine had everything required.