On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:42:35PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2007 19:28:50 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:37:00AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > > Why does the wine port complain that it will not build on my > > > 6.2/amd64 machine? A quick search around winehq.com seems to > > > indicate that the linux (kubuntu, debian) guys compile wine on > > > their 64-bit platforms??? And you know how we *hate* to let them > > > think they have something we bsd-ites do not ;) > > > > Extra patches, I guess. Why not look into it and see what needs to > > be added to our port? > > Wine runs win32 programs. It needs to be built as a 32bit program > linked with 32bit libraries. The ports/package system can't handle > 32bit code on amd64.
Well it can, you just need to also have 32-bit versions of all the other ports too. It is true that no-one has really worked on this, but it's not technically difficult. Kris
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