[pkg-wine-party] [wine] 108/114: Document generating 32-bit results with the -tools packages.
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Author: Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jun 5 19:13:52 2016 +0200
Document generating 32-bit results with the -tools packages.
See: #824673
Thanks: Andrey Gursky and Javier Serrano Polo
# Conflicts:
# debian/changelog
---
debian/README.debian | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
debian/changelog | 2 ++
debian/control.in | 6 ++++--
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian
index a32409d..044a2fd 100644
--- a/debian/README.debian
+++ b/debian/README.debian
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ setup with "rm -rf ~/.wine". This will destroy everything you've installed,
including configuration and data files, so if you have anything important,
please back it up first. You can then start fresh.
-32-/64-bit
-==========
+Running 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit systems
+=====================================================
Most Windows binaries are 32-bit applications. You need to install wine32 (or
wine32-development) to run them. wine64 (or wine64-development) alone cannot do
this.
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ wine32-development). As root, execute e.g.:
If you have wine32 and wine64 (or wine32-development and wine64-development)
installed, Wine will default to a shared 64-bit prefix that runs most 32-bit
-Windows applications.
+Windows applications (WoW64).
If this causes problems for an application, you may create a 32-bit prefix by
running e.g.:
@@ -92,6 +92,23 @@ $ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine32" wine-development application.exe
If you don't want 64-bit at all, just uninstall wine64 (or
wine-64-development).
+32-bit results from the tools (winegcc, ...) on 64-bit systems
+==============================================================
+You may generate 32-bit results with the programs in wine32-tools (or
+wine32-development-tools) as well as with those in wine64-tools (or
+wine64-development-tools).
+
+Enable multiarch (see above). Than install the matching 32-bit Wine development
+files. As root, execute e.g. on amd64:
+# apt install libwine-dev:i386
+# apt install libwine-development-dev:i386
+
+Use the programs with the option "-m32" (for winemaker --wine32). If you are
+using wine64(-development)-tools specify the arch-specific path to some files
+additionally, e.g.:
+$ winegcc -m32 -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine ...
+$ winegcc-development -m32 -L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine-development ...
+
Wine Gecko
==========
The downloader for Wine Gecko is intentionally disabled in the Debian packages.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dbfdcac..1e7ecab 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ wine (1.8.2-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
- Make wineNN-tools multi-arch installable (closes: #823264,
see: #824673). Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo.
- Let libwine-dev prefer wine64-tools to wine32-tools.
+ - Document generating 32-bit results with the -tools packages.
+ Thanks to Andrey Gursky and Javier Serrano Polo.
-- Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com> Mon, 06 Jun 2016 03:35:43 +0200
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 598694e..2c3cae8 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ Description: Windows API implementation - 32-bit developer tools
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation.
This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.
.
- This package provides Wine's 32-bit developer tools.
+ This package provides Wine's 32-bit developer tools. They are capable of
+ generating 32-bit results.
Package: wine64VERSION-tools
Architecture: amd64 arm64
@@ -210,7 +211,8 @@ Description: Windows API implementation - 64-bit developer tools
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation.
This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.
.
- This package provides Wine's 64-bit developer tools.
+ This package provides Wine's 64-bit developer tools. They are capable of
+ generating both 32- and 64-bit results.
Package: fonts-wineVERSION
Section: fonts
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