[oi-dev] Wine and freetype

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 10.07.24 um 08:52 schrieb 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.
>
>
Thanks for the clarification. I will see whether I can work on this
later. Maybe someone will chime in and try to update our wine version...


Andreas
> 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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