On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:46:50AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > Hi, > > On Fedora Core 2, the kernel is compiled with the 4G/4G VM split option > enabled, which can prevent us from performing a correct emulation. > > Win32 apps are apparently built with the assumption that they will not > be allocated addresses beyond the 3G boundary. The solution therefore is > to perform a similar trick to the preloader and reserve the address space > before the emulation starts so mmap will never use addresses in that area. > > This probably won't be combined with the preloader itself though, as > Alexandre says it can be done after Wine gets control (what about DSOs > mapped >3gig?) and so it can be done more portably. Up until now this > issue has only affected Solaris and therefore nobody fixed it. > > There is currently no known workaround for this problem short of > recompiling your kernel. The error looks like this: > > wine: unable to create process heap > > Alexandre diagnosed this problem so I'm sure he'll correct me if this > email contains any mistakes.
Could it be that Redhat is trying to deliberate break WINE every half year ;) Ciao, Marcus
