[pkg-wine-party] Bug#733648: Bug#733648: [wine] winecfg and other wine tools fail on WOW64 WINEPROFILEs
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Francesco Presel wrote:
> Package: wine
> Version: 1.6.1-8
> Severity: important
>
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> If I use some wine tool on a 64 bit profile, it fails with:
> $%env WINEPREFIX="/home/francesco/.wine64" wine explorer
> wine: '/home/francesco/.wine64' is a 64-bit installation, it cannot be used
> with a 32-bit wineserver.
> $%env WINEPREFIX="/home/francesco/.wine64" winecfg
> wine: '/home/francesco/.wine64' is a 64-bit installation, it cannot be used
> with a 32-bit wineserver.
>
> This makes it difficult to use 64 bit binaries, since they require a 64-bit
> profile and such a profile can't be easily configured due to this bug.
> Is it possible, inside the script in /usr/bin/wine, to detect whether the
> WINEPROFILE you are currently using (by setting the WINEPROFILE variable or
> the default prefix if the variable is not set) is 32 or 64 bit, and fallback
> to that architecture instead of using the 32 bit executable by default?
>
> Moreover, there should be (by documentation) the possibility to select the
> desired architecture by using the variable WINEARCH (=win32 or win64).
> Finally, I believe that, if the 64 binary is installed, the default value
> for winearch should be win64 and not win32, because a WOW64 profile is
> compatible with 32 bit applications, but not vice versa.
>
> To summarize, my suggestion is the following behaviour, in the following
> order:
> 1- if only wine32 or only wine64 exist, use that.
> 2- if WINEARCH is set, use the executable according to that; return error if
> the profile or the binary you are running is not compatible with the
> architecture requested.
> 3- If the argument (converted - if necessary - to a unix style path) is an
> existing file, use 64 bit if it is a 64 bit executable and 32 bit otherwise
> (for compatibility with 16-bit binaries, from what I understand)
> 4 - If it is not (the argument is probably "one of the Windows executables
> shipped with Wine"), check if WINEPROFILE is set (otherwise set it to
> $HOME/.wine), then check if this profile exists and choose the wine binary
> according (do this also for winecfg)
> 5 - If you arrive here, it means that the prefix has yet to be created. In
> this case, by default, create a WOW64 profile (by using the 64 bit version
> of wine).
Hi,
Would you mind proposing a patch for this? I mostly agree with the
suggested changes, but I think it would be more effective to review a
suggested implementation, rather than interpreting what you have
written.
Best wishes,
Mike
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