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

[Robin Sheat]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 12:16, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I can't see that running 32bit exes on a 64 bit system is a problem. The
> command set for x64 includes the command set for x86.
That's not the problem: the problem is libraries. You can't talk to a 64-bit 
library from a 32-bit app, or visa-versa. Imagine the pain involved in 
passing a 64-bit pointer to a 32-bit function :)

What can be done in some cases is installing libraries in /lib32 that the 
32-bit apps link against. The problem is that there aren't many packages for 
that in Ubuntu.

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