amd64 and wine support in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Sat Feb 5 14:34:45 PST 2005


On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:41:36AM -0600, Nick M. Lozinsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my 64bit AMD laptop, using FreeBSD 5.3 Stable, I an unable to make
> install wine from ports. Looking through the Makefile, I find that it
> only support i386 architectures. Ho can I make it even with i386
> support under amd64, or, is it even possible to make it on amd64?

Wine isn't supported on amd64 (neither on Linux/AMD64 also).  The AMD64
ISA does not support the functionality Wine uses.
 
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