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On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:31:42 +0300 |
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Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 19/07/12 16:03, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras |
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> > <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> Interesting that Wine aims to do the WOW64 thing. That's |
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> >> certainly news to me :-) |
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> > Not really surprising. There's an IsWow64Process() in the Windows |
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> > API to allow processes to detect the nature of the environment |
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> > they're running on, since sometimes that's something you need to |
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> > know. :) |
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> WOW64 relies on 32-bit libraries to do it's job though. It's well |
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> known that 32-bit code cannot link against 64-bit libraries. If |
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> building a 64-bit only version of Wine (since you cannot build any |
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> 32-bit code on non-multilib Gentoo), the question arises on how Wine |
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> is doing it. |
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Stupid question incoming: |
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What's the WOW in WOW64? |
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The more I read it as World of Warcraft the more I see that it doesn't |
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actually fit :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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