I see several different wine ports and would like to know which I need for amd64 and which I need for an i386 installation.
from David Naylor: > On Saturday, 13 May 2017 08:16:55 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I see several different wine ports and would like to know which I need for > > amd64 and which I need for an i386 installation. > > I don't really want i386-wine as such, since I would install wine on i386 > > and could then mount this partition at /compat/i386 to run from amd64, > > while retaining the ability to run from straight i386. > This is effectively what i386-wine does: it bundles the required 32-bit > libraries from a i386 host/environment and packages them such that they can > run on an amd64 machine. > > Am I correct that I would build wine (or wine-devel) on i386 and then > > install wine or wine-devel on amd64? > Correct, you should use the same port for both i386 and amd64, however if you > are running Windows programs from /compat/i386 then there is no need to > install wine on the amd64 host (unless you want to run 64-bit programs). > > Am I better off doing this on FreeBSD 11-STABLE or on 12-HEAD? > Normally CURRENT doesn't cause issues with wine, however STABLE will more, > well, more stable. I wouldn't base the decision of CURRENT/STABLE on whats > best for Wine. We do, however, need more people to test CURRENT. My thought for building FreeBSD 11-STABLE for i386 is being better able to run wine from amd64, either HEAD or STABLE. I think there might be problems using wine on i386 HEAD from 11-STABLE amd64? Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
