[pkg-wine-party] Bug#762058: WoW64 in wine-development

Jens Reyer jre.winesim at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 16:36:55 UTC 2016


WoW64 is now implemented in wine 1.8-2, and should soon be in
wine-development, too.

Wine now supports and uses shared WoW64/64-bit wineprefixes if wine,
wine32 and wine64 are installed. So this should work now for all newly
created default (=64-bit) prefixes and existing 64-bit prefixes.

WoW64 works in Wine by
- adapting the /usr/bin/wine script,
- adding a /usr/bin/wineserver script that defaults to the 64-bit
wineserver, and
- not installing wineserver in wine's configured bindir (= libdir)
(/usr/lib/*/wine/wineserver).

However I assume that we have to patch the wine source to look for
wine-development, wine64-development and wineserver-development in PATH.

At least wineserver was found in @bindir@/wineserver up to now, which
doesn't exist anymore (and would break the WoW64 setup, if both the
32-bit and 64-bit wineserver existed there). Next Wine looks in PATH for
wineserver, where /usr/bin/wineserver belongs to wine (stable).
See the wine and wineserver manpages.

Similarily the 64-bit wineloader needs to be found
(/usr/bin/wine64-development). I don't have any documentation pointers
about that, but found it to be relevant.



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