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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:57:34
Message-Id: ju903d$j4i$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit by Alecks Gates
1 On 18/07/12 00:14, Alecks Gates wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> 64-bit Wine cannot run 32-bit Windows applications. You need a 32-bit Wine
4 >> for that. And since in 99.9% of Windows software is 32-bit... well, you get
5 >> the point :-)
6 >>
7 >>
8 > Sure, but 64-bit wine can run either a win32 or a win64 config, and
9 > you have to enable win64 with the "win64" USE flag. I believe this
10 > makes the win64 config default and you have to set WINEARCH=win32 if
11 > you want only 32-bit.
12
13 Interesting that Wine aims to do the WOW64 thing. That's certainly news
14 to me :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>