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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."

2 of 385 comments (clear)

  1. 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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  2. 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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