On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/07/12 00:14, Alecks Gates wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@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
