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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. 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.

  3. 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.

  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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