Does wine64 actually work?

[Manish Jain]

On 12/06/17 02:13, Sascha Folie wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:09:03 +0000
> Manish Jain <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/06/17 01:02, Sascha Folie wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> I removed wine and installed wine-staging (v2.17), and then I tried
>> running notepad.exe from Win 7 under wine64. I get:
>>
>> err:winedevice:ServiceMain Failed to load L"win32k.sys"
>>
>> No notepad window. Does anyone have any tips for resolving this problem?
>>
>> Tx
>> Manish Jain
> 
> I get the same error from a Win10 copy of notepad.exe. Seems like it
> isn't a pure 64bit application.
> 
> wine/wine-devel/wine-staging on FreeBSD amd64 only support 64bit and
> can't run 32bit software at all.
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha

Thanks for replying, Sascha. Can you please tell me one or two 64-bit 
binaries from w7/w10 that would work under FreeBSD wine ?

I was thinking notepad would be easiest, but it looks like things are 
not so cool.

Thanks & Regards,
Manish Jain