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Wine Goes 64-Bit With Wine64

Posted by timothy on from the leathery-but-not-presumptuous dept.

G3ckoG33k writes "Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a popular way to run Windows programs on Linux, and it has an impressive compatibility list. After 15 years of development it reached version 1.0 a few months ago. Now, Wine developer Maarten Lankhorst has succeeded in running 'Hello World' in 64-bit, natively! The 64-bit variety is unexpectedly named Wine64."

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  1. Re:GCC changes by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Informative

    Support for Microsoft's ABI no doubt.

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  2. Re:GCC changes by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Informative

    Judging from this post, it looks like the changes involved support for mixed Windows/Linux calling conventions on x86-64 (i.e. specifying on a per-function basis whether to use the Windows or Linux calling convention).

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  3. Re:GCC changes by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions

    See "Microsoft x64 calling convention"

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  4. Re:PowerPC arch? PlayStation 3? by AJWM · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't hold your breath, because WINE Is Not an Emulator. Unless you've got some PPC Windows programs around, that is. It doesn't emulate the x86, just intercepts the OS and library calls.

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  5. Re:PowerPC arch? PlayStation 3? by rdwald · · Score: 4, Informative

    Getting Wine to run on a processor architecture not native to Windows would require emulating an x86 processor. Say it with me: Wine Is Not an Emulator.

  6. Re:LUK by schnikies79 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ReactOS

    The general idea is similar to what you are looking for. It's nowhere near finished and they have been working on for god knows how long, but who knows. Someday perhaps.

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  7. or just use CodeWeavers CrossOver. by toby · · Score: 4, Informative

    Which supports all of the above for a small cost.

    Any dollar NOT spent on Microsoft makes the world a better place.

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    1. Re:or just use CodeWeavers CrossOver. by testerus · · Score: 4, Informative

      Neither Photoshop CS3 nor Internet Explorer 7 work using Crossover. Also it does not support all applications of Microsoft Office 2007.

  8. Re:LUK by fractoid · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's what Lindows was until MS sued them into the ground, they changed their name to Linspire and went very very quiet about running windows apps.

    It's good to be the king!

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  9. Re:WHY?? by Daengbo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Low memory prices started the rapid uptake of Vista 64 in about April. This trend has continued. 64-bit will be the default setup for ISVs by next year when Windows 7 comes out (though it will be available in both 32 and 64 bit versions). Windows 8 is said to be 64 bit only. Win7 will promote 64-bit during the transition.

    Agree with the Win6.5 comment, though.

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