Re: wine for amd64?

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

Alexander Fieroch <fieroch@web.de> writes:

> wine is still not available for debian amd64. Does anybody know why?
> Isn't it possible to compile on amd64 and will there be a version in
> future for amd64 (like openoffice)?

Probably because you would need 64 bit Windows DLLs to run it.  Since
XP64 has been released not that long ago there is certainly not much
work done in that direction - if at all.

Then, most likely you would want to run 32 bit applications on it.
That would require 32 bit libraries as well.  And that requires a
little more than just to recompile it with a 64 bit compiler.

Or you could just run a 32 bit wine...

Does wine really need to run in a chroot?

Matthias