On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:05 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Walter Dnes <waltdnes <at> waltdnes.org> writes: > > >> WINE, which runs some Windows apps, will not build on a 64-bit system >> without multilib support. I found that out "the hard way" after >> installing pure 64-bit on my machine. Rather than wipe+reinstall, I >> ended up installing a 32-bit Gentoo guest under qemu-kvm, and installed >> WINE on that. > > > Walter, > You have confused me. First you indicate that multilib is > needed for WINE. Then you indicate that you had to use the > 32 bit mixed mode (no multilib).... under qemu-kvm, and > and then install WINE under the 32 bit qemu. > > So if you were installing a system, just to run wine, would it > be multilib or hybrid (64 and 32 bit) ? > > > James
James, 1) Wine is 32-bit 2) Walter had a 64-bit only system 3) Walter had 2 choices: a) Wipe the system and start over making it a multi-lib system b) Create a 32-bit chroot He chose b). It's not possible to 'install a system to ONLY run Wine', but if you want to run Windows apps you have 3 choices: 1) Install 32-bit Gentoo on your 64-bit hardware. Not very interesting to me. 2) Install 64-bit Gentoo with multi-lib support. This is what I do, although I don't run Wine anymore as I use Vbox & VMware. 3) Install 64-bit Gentoo without multi-lib support and run which in a 32-bit chroot. Double the Gentoo maintenance because you are now required to keep both the 32-bit & 64-bit installs up-to-date. Hope this help.
