Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

[Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@nileshgr.com>]

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> On Jul 18, 2012 2:52 AM, "Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, "Volker Armin Hemmann"
> > >> <volkerarmin@googlemail.com <mailto:volkerarmin@googlemail.com>>
wrote:
> > >> *snip*
> > >>  > The only use case that might come up is wine - I don't know
anything
> > >> about
> > >>  > that beast. Haven't had any use for it in years.
> > >>  >
> > >>  > --
> > >>  > #163933
> > >>  >
> > >> I use wine daily on 64 bit with no problems.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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 :-)
> >
> > Wine supports a WoW64 setup, where you build both 32-bit and 64-bit
> > wine, and 32- and 64-bit binaries are interoperable. I just took a
> > brief look at the gentoo ebuild and it appears to enable this if you
> > have both win32 and win64 USE flags set. I haven't tried it myself, so
> > I can't say if or how it really works. :)
> >
Good discussion, guys. I'll continue with 64bit :)

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