On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote: >> >> On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, "Volker Armin Hemmann" >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com <mailto:volkerar...@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. :)
