How to install 64bit softwares in Wine

Imran23 · Post by **Imran23** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 1:04 am

Hi, I am using Wine1.3.28 in linux 11.04 (64bit OS)
I installed Wine along with all the 32bit libraries and I read that using 64bit windows apps are still experimental in Wine.
I found this page which might help http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64
But, since I am new to linux and all, I am sort of confused about what I'm actually supposed to do..
First of all how do I know if I am using an up-to-date GCC? Also, how do I run a shell script?
Secondly, it asks me to configure wine for 64-bit compilation and I'm pretty sure you can't do that in terminal

... So, I'm kind of lost now..

Here is an example of what happens when I try to install a 64-bit windows application (iTunes in particular)

imran@imran-desktop:~$ cd ~/Desktop/
imran@imran-desktop:~/Desktop$ wine "iTunes64Setup.exe"
err:process:create_process starting 64-bit process L"Z:\\home\\imran\\Desktop\\iTunes64Setup.exe" not supported in 32-bit wineprefix
wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\imran\Desktop\iTunes64Setup.exe

klaine8 · Post by **klaine8** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:21 am

Hi,

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Imran23 <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi, I am using Wine1.3.28 in linux 11.04 (64bit OS)
I installed Wine along with all the 32bit libraries and I read that using 64bit windows apps are still experimental in Wine.
I found this page which might help http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64
But, since I am new to linux and all, I am sort of confused about what I'm actually supposed to do..
First of all how do I know if I am using an up-to-date GCC?

gcc -v
On my machine it gives
kari@linux-hzqj:~> gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-suse-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada
--enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.5
--enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-plugin
--with-bugurl=http://bugs.opensuse.org/ --with-pkgversion='SUSE Linux'
--disable-libgcj --disable-libmudflap --with-slibdir=/lib64
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --program-suffix=-4.5
--enable-linux-futex --without-system-libunwind --enable-gold
--with-plugin-ld=/usr/bin/gold --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic
--build=x86_64-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585] (SUSE Linux)
kari@linux-hzqj:~>

So I am running 4.5.1.20...

Also, how do I run a shell script?
If you have a script named runme.sh in your current directory you just give
./runme.sh

Notice that shell scripts does not need to have sh ending in name.
They can be named whatever.

Secondly, it asks me to configure wine for 64-bit compilation and I'm pretty sure you can't do that in terminal ... So, I'm kind of lost now..

Try it out and get back with specific questions.

Best Regards
Kari

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