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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 <realnc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Interesting that Wine aims to do the WOW64 thing. That's certainly news to |
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>> me :-) |
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> Not really surprising. There's an IsWow64Process() in the Windows API |
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> to allow processes to detect the nature of the environment they're |
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> running on, since sometimes that's something you need to know. :) |
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WOW64 relies on 32-bit libraries to do it's job though. It's well known |
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that 32-bit code cannot link against 64-bit libraries. If building a |
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64-bit only version of Wine (since you cannot build any 32-bit code on |
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non-multilib Gentoo), the question arises on how Wine is doing it. |
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