Wine on x64 bit Ubuntu 6.06 (was Re: [nzlug] Wine on Ubuntu?)

[Robin Sheat]

On Friday 05 January 2007 21:12, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Can anyone confirm that it is there in the x64 version of Ubuntu 6.06?
Short answer: it's not.

Wine runs 32-bit windows binaries, and mixing 64 and 32 bit is horrible. Part 
of 'Wine Is Not an Emulator' is that it isn't emulating an environment for 
the binaries to run as such, instead it's just providing a set of libraries 
that provides something that looks like a Win32 API. As such, it doesn't 
avoid the 64->32 bit library issues that exist.

However, apparently it can be done (just based on what I've seen in the Ubuntu 
forums). My guess is it involves a 32-bit chroot, which is something I'd like 
to avoid.

That said, I don't know the details and I haven't even read up on it to try. 
There's only one program I'd like to get running in Wine (a game I used to 
enjoy years ago: Afterlife), but it's not a pressing concern of mine, so I 
haven't tried.

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