[oi-dev] Wine and freetype

[Peter Tribble]

With older wine you certainly need to ship all the 32-bit dependencies.

Although Wine 9.0 has a new WoW64 mode that allows you to run 32-bit Windows
applications within a pure 64-bit Wine, so that's going to be the way
forward.


On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 7:22 AM Matthew R. Trower <dev at blackshard.net>
wrote:

> Wine is effectively screwed due to this. Wine can be built pure 32, pure
> 64, or 64/32 (multilib).
>
> The pure 64 wine can only run win64 executables. Much (most?) interesting
> windows software is still win32.  To run it you need multilib, and for that
> you need all the 32bit deps that were removed.
>
> -- Matthew R. Trower
>
> On Jul 9, 2024, at 23:36, Andreas Wacknitz via oi-dev <
> oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Am 09.07.24 um 18:51 schrieb Alexander Jung:
>
> Hi,
> i am using wine for a small  programm what exists only for windows, but
> since switch to 64bit libs it can not find freetype anymore and it didn't
> display any fonts at all.
>
> 'To enable Wine touse TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType
> greater than or equal to 2.0.5.
> '
>
> Is someone using wine and can confirm this Problem?
>
> I have checked wine. It is broken because it is 32 bit. I don't know
> whether it is possible to switch to 64 bit.
> In order to make it working again either somebody has to find out if and
> how that would be possible or has to re-introduce
> 32 bit versions of all of wine's dependencies, eg. freetype.
>
> Andreas
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