From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:03:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiDk13_srMq7qz1d1y+QkFAzYHymKNxuTsBhPcu4GOJ=iw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ju903d$j4i$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/07/12 00:14, Alecks Gates wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 64-bit Wine cannot run 32-bit Windows applications. You need a 32-bit
>>> Wine
>>> for that. And since in 99.9% of Windows software is 32-bit... well, you
>>> get
>>> the point :-)
>>>
>>>
>> Sure, but 64-bit wine can run either a win32 or a win64 config, and
>> you have to enable win64 with the "win64" USE flag. I believe this
>> makes the win64 config default and you have to set WINEARCH=win32 if
>> you want only 32-bit.
>
>
> Interesting that Wine aims to do the WOW64 thing. That's certainly news to
> me :-)
Not really surprising. There's an IsWow64Process() in the Windows API
to allow processes to detect the nature of the environment they're
running on, since sometimes that's something you need to know. :)
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-17 2:22 [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-17 2:39 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2012-07-17 2:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2012-07-17 3:04 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-17 3:29 ` Mark Knecht
2012-07-17 4:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-17 14:18 ` Mark Knecht
2012-07-17 14:32 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-18 11:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-07-17 13:36 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-07-17 13:49 ` Leiking
2012-07-17 14:04 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-17 16:34 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-07-17 3:36 ` Bill Kenworthy
2012-07-17 4:25 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-17 6:25 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-07-17 7:05 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-07-17 8:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-17 16:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-07-17 16:38 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-17 16:43 ` Alecks Gates
2012-07-17 20:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-17 21:14 ` Alecks Gates
2012-07-19 12:55 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-19 13:03 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-07-19 13:31 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-19 13:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-07-19 13:53 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-07-19 14:06 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-19 14:14 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-07-19 14:33 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-19 21:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-07-17 21:21 ` Paul Hartman
[not found] ` <CAHgBc-sQm0VVUGHWG8E2q=DGKs_iaMHsmw1-5s-F7ozvX_vsKg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-07-18 2:19 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-07-17 16:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2012-07-17 18:13 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-07-17 18:23 ` Mark Knecht
2012-07-17 18:32 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-17 18:47 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-07-17 18:49 ` Mark Knecht
2012-07-17 18:58 ` Michael Mol
2012-07-17 19:18 ` Mark Knecht
2012-07-19 5:34 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-07-19 12:57 ` Mark Knecht
2012-07-19 16:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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