Wine 8.0 Released With PE Conversion Complete, Progress On WoW64 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 8.0 Released With PE Conversion Complete, Progress On WoW64 Support

Wine 8.0 is now officially out as the annual stable feature update for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.0-Released

[Redfoxmoon]

Wine WoW64 is most definitely interesting, I hope it'll help w/ an amd64 port to netbsd...

[pinguinpc]

Well now waiting for wine 8.1 for begin work around wmv dmo, this can solve various problems related wmv playback (32bit games cimatics on wine64)

[Sethox]

With a new more stable base I hope Collabora's Wine (Wayland) will soon be upstreamed. In any case, the Linux conversion seem to be better and better by every update.

[Velocity]

Cannot they make something so that Wine64 + Wine32 can be compiled easily?

[ssokolow]

Cannot they make something so that Wine64 + Wine32 can be compiled easily?

Given that GCC for x86_64 has -m32, I imagine it's just build system technical debt to be worked through... assuming they're not doing something like depending on multilib's 32-bit ELF libc to build their PE binaries.

[MorrisS.]

An exhaustive video would be welcome.

[dragon321]

When Wine will be able to run 32 bit software without 32 bit libraries Steam will be the only thing that will require 32 bit support on my system. I hope Valve will think about this as well in near future.

[s_j_newbury]

When Wine will be able to run 32 bit software without 32 bit libraries Steam will be the only thing that will require 32 bit support on my system. I hope Valve will think about this as well in near future.

Somehow Steam gets by using an old 32bit build of CEF, although it's currently crashing on my Gentoo system. I wish they'd use just use webkit instead, I'm not a fan of CEF... isn't it time for a 64bit client?

[PluMGMK]

Wait, a client that routinely handles payment information for countless gamers is using an "old" build of CEF? Isn't that a security concern?