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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. GCC changes by JohnFluxx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmm, it required changes to GCC.

    Anyone know why?

    1. Re:GCC changes by Bromskloss · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What are the Windows and Linux calling conventions?

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  2. LUK by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wine introduces quite a big overhead when running memory intensive applications so I think Linux Unified Kernel is what really needs attention. With this project you can use unmodified core Windows libraries thus getting the best possible compatibility.

    1. Re:LUK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      you know what would be really cool? a linux distro that focused *only* on wine, and windows programs.

      i mean the absolute minimum you could possibly have to get a usable wine session - no underlying desktop environment, no python, no perl, no bsh/zsh/csh, no headers, just the kernel, wine, and popular windows freeware like 7-zip, utorrent, ffdshow, media player classic, dvdshrink, firefox.. a complete replacement for windows that actually runs software that people want and are already familiar with.

      no, i don't want to install a 4.5gb distro. i want linux without all the bloat from crap i'll never ever want nor need to run the windows programs i like, and not the painfully different and bizarrely bloated linux versions.

      i'd run this in a heartbeat.

      how sad and hilarious, right now i use nothing but open source software on windows, and my footprint is MUCH less than linux to do the same. i tried to install the smallest linux distro i could and still get a usable wine session.. 1gb worth of software later i'm up to the point that xp can do with 250mb.

    2. Re:LUK by Al+Dimond · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I run Linux at home and Windows at work, and seem to spend an increasingly large portion of my time on either platform in Firefox. Firefox works better on Windows than Linux. Embedded media that's automatic on Windows gives me a "plug-in needed" notification and a link to a page with nothing useful on it on Linux. I haven't had to do it for a while, but last I remember helper application selection was done in a way that made absolutely no sense on Linux.

      Lots of programs have quirky GUI layout and proportion issues on Linux but not on Windows... I think a lot of that has to do with font rendering, which is largely out of the programs' control. But to some degree it's harder in X because there's a better chance that the DPI will be set to what it actually is instead of fixed to one of two allowed artificial values.

      Windows GUIs are getting harder to make, though, because the programming style suggested by current VS versions and languages (as compared to old-school VB) is getting more and more complicated, and forcing more stuff into programmers' minds at once instead of less. Not to mention that you have to worry about more imperative concerns now while laying out forms, which really ought to be a declarative process (and mostly is in old VB... more accurately, you don't have to worry about your code being executed in design mode unless you really want it to). I should note that I don't have tons of GUI programming experience, these are just impressions formed from working with a few VB5 projects and a few VS projects at work.

  3. Huzah! by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was going to joke that a game I've wanted to work in Wine for a long time, Astral Masters, will still not work, but in a more glorious way.

    But that joke felt petty. The truth is, these guys have pulled of something pretty amazing. Congrats, guys.

  4. Re:Does it run by eihab · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...Cygwin? Hah! Tricked you!

    As a matter of fact it did in 2002, might still be the case.

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  5. Re:Who really uses it though ? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's like escaping from prison and then spending all your time in a small basement apartment.

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