On Sunday 13 August 2006 5:39 pm, Joe Ciccone wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 August 2006 2:00 pm, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >   
> >> The downside is that you
> >> cannot run 32-bit binaries (primarily, plugins) so no realplayer, no
> >> flash, and perhaps fewer av codecs available.  And probably no OOo.
> >>     
> >
> > Do you know if you can run Wine on a pure 64 bit system without 32 bit 
Linux 
> > binary support?
> >
> >   
> You would need a multilib system to run wine. Wine has to be 32bit since
> the applications you're going to try to run are 32bit.

I can run 64 bit apps under a 32 bit version of QEMU, and I can run 32 bit 
apps under a 64 bit Linux kernel.  I'm under the impression Wine handles 
system calls for a process, ala User Mode Linux.  Wine is _already_ letting 
you run 16 bit code from a 32 bit context, or it wouldn't work.

I take it you mean that Wine can't provide a 32 bit Windows context from a 64 
bit Wine server process?  (The process handling the calls and the process 
it's making calls to have to be running in the same mode because Wine can't 
do a context switch and thunking?)

What if Wine is statically linked?  (You should be able to run a statically 
linked 32 bit app on a pure 64 bit x86-64 system, right?)

Rob
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