Does wine64 actually work?

Sascha Folie sascha.folie at safo.at
Tue Dec 5 19:39:35 UTC 2017


On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:01:37 +0000
Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 box, I am writing some documentation about Wine.
> 
> I have been using wine32 for quite a while now, and it works remarkably 
> well. wine64 on the contrary seems to be a minefield.
> 
> I deleted my ~/.wine (which has 32-bit-stuff), installed the wine pkg 
> (which is 64-bit), and tried running a few binaries (notepad.exe and 
> mspaint.exe) under wine64 from Win 7 as well 10.
> 
> All I could get was trash (or nothing at all).
> 
> Is there anyone on this list who has had success running 7/10 binaries 
> under wine64 ?
> 
> The problem seems to be not just with FreeBSD. Linux vm also produces 
> trash with 64-bit Windows binaries.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Manish Jain

Hi,

I'm running Factorio[1] on FreeBSD 11.1 amd64 on wine-staging-2.21
without problems.

[1] https://www.factorio.com/

Regards,
Sascha


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