Wine 7.21 Released With Continued PE Work, Prepping For Vulkan 32-bit On 64-bit

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine 7.21 Released With Continued PE Work, Prepping For Vulkan 32-bit On 64-bit

Wine 7.21 is out as the latest bi-weekly development snapshot of this software to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-7.21-Released

[nerdopolis]

Unless I am mistaken, I've been watching their git, and I think they FINISHED the PE work. When they completed a DLL, they were removing the mcygwin flag from the EXTRADLLFLAGS for it. The only place where mcygwin appears now is the part that was handling it

[Jessica]

Unless I am mistaken, I've been watching their git, and I think they FINISHED the PE work. When they completed a DLL, they were removing the mcygwin flag from the EXTRADLLFLAGS for it. The only place where mcygwin appears now is the part that was handling it

Out of curiosity, what's the point of all the PE conversions? I haven't been following along for too long and never saw their initial reason.

[clementhk]

PE conversion is completed.

https://gist.github.com/rmi1974/f554b00609cdb0cdc32724d47a163fd2?permalink_comment_id=4365545#gistcomment-4365545

With a temporary performance hit.

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/1322

[TuesdayPogo]

Out of curiosity, what's the point of all the PE conversions? I haven't been following along for too long and never saw their initial reason.

It's been a while since I first read up on it, from what I recall part of it is to follow closer with how Windows does things to improve compatibility, and as a benefit it could also allow WoW64 without 32-bit dependencies.

[birdie]

Out of curiosity, what's the point of all the PE conversions? I haven't been following along for too long and never saw their initial reason.

This question has been asked and answered here at least a dozen times already.

I guess Michael should just add this now three years old announcement to every news:

What's new in Wine 5.0
======================


*** PE modules

- Most modules are built in PE format (Portable Executable, the
Windows binary format) instead of ELF when the MinGW compiler is
available. This helps various copy protection schemes that check
that the on-disk and in-memory contents of system modules are
identical.

- The actual PE binaries are copied into the Wine prefix instead of
the fake DLL files. This makes the prefix look more like a real
Windows installation, at the cost of some extra disk space.

- Modules that have been converted to PE can use standard wide-char C
functions, as well as wide-char character constants like L"abc".
This makes the code easier to read.

- Not all modules have been converted to PE yet; this is an ongoing
process that will continue during the Wine 5.x development series.

- The Wine C runtime is updated to support linking to MinGW-compiled
binaries; it is used by default instead of the MinGW runtime when
building DLLs.

[dEnigma]

This question has been asked and answered here at least a dozen times already.

I guess Michael should just add this now three years old announcement to every news:
[...]

I know right? It's almost like they "haven't been following along for too long". If only they'd mentioned that. Of course then your reply would seem unnecessarily rude, and you'd have to rephrase it quite a bit to fit the question.

[user1]

Wine 7.21 also works on enabling support for 32-bit Windows Vulkan games/apps with the rest of the 64-bit system software/driver stack

If I understand this correctly, that means 32 bit games will now use 64 bit Vulkan drivers?
I know that on Windows you still need 32 bit user space drivers to run 32 bit games.

[pinguinpc]

With a temporary performance hit.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/..._requests/1322

According this affect wined3d but if you have dxvk dont be a problem ?

[nanonyme]

If I understand this correctly, that means 32 bit games will now use 64 bit Vulkan drivers?
I know that on Windows you still need 32 bit user space drivers to run 32 bit games.

Now if only Steam app would support native 64bit....