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

[Neil Harsant]

For what it is worth I am running a commercial flavor of wine ( Transgaming's
Cedega ) on the 64 bit version of SuSE Linux with no problems at all. 
It runs games like World of Warcraft perfectly.
That shows that at least for my hardware/software combination the 32 and 64
bit worlds can coexist without the need for a chroot or other workarounds.
   Neil Harsant

On Saturday 06 January 2007 00:36, Robin Sheat wrote:
  > 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.