Help us test wine-wow64!

Question

--- WHAT ---
wine-wow64 is nominated for replacing bin32-wine in [community]. Its main advantage over bin32-wine is that it is able to run both 32bit and 64bit Windows application whereas bin32-wine can only run 32bit Windows applications. According to the wine project, this method has become viable and stable enough to test with wine 1.2 but we need your help to test it! We don't want unstable crap in [community].
bin32-wine and wine-wow64 are only for x86_64. The i686 wine package in [community] will be left untouched.
Note, wow64 has nothing to do with a popular MMORPG, it is merely the method Windows x64 uses for 32/64bit compatibility which is mimicked in wine.
If you want to help us test it, please either grab the AUR package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38462) or add the repo to your pacman.conf (much easier method).
[heftig]
Server = http://archlinux.ro/~heftig/repo/$arch
---HOW---
If you want to test, acquire wine-wow64 using one of the two methods given above and run some of the applications you know were working with bin32-wine. Also run some native x64 Win programs. For instance, install Python 64bit and see how it works. Or something else. Just run your stuff and report back.
Your testing findings are very important for this decision. However, the actual decision for the inclusion of wine-wow64 in [community] is ultimately done on the aur-general mailing list. Practical testing results should still be a rather influential factor against the emotional bias of including lots of cross32 and lib32 packages as well.
<moderator edit> Forum sticky not necessary. Post edited above to direct users to the related aur-general thread. Please report all test results there. tomk
Last edited by Svenstaro (2010-07-18 13:29:39)

Answer 1

I am getting the following errors with wine-wow64 downloaded from your repo. Apart from "cannot find Freetype font library" error there are also some extra errors. No errors occured with bin32-wine previously installed. Can you pinpoint whats wrong? Thank you.
[keshav_pr@keshav-laptop MS_Windows_Softwares_64-bit]$ pacman -Qs wine
local/wine-wow64 1.2-1 [194.50 MB]
A compatibility layer for running Windows programs (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
[keshav_pr@keshav-laptop MS_Windows_Softwares_64-bit]$ pacman -Qs freetype
local/freetype2 2.4.1-1 [2.54 MB]
TrueType font rendering library
local/lib32-freetype2 2.4.1-1 [0.54 MB] (lib32)
TrueType font rendering library
local/lib32-libxft 2.1.14-1 [0.10 MB] (lib32)
FreeType-based font drawing library for X
local/libxft 2.1.14-1 [0.15 MB]
FreeType-based font drawing library for X
Setting up the wine prefix and trying to run a win64 app
[keshav_pr@keshav-laptop MS_Windows_Softwares_64-bit]$ rm -rf ~/.wine/
[keshav_pr@keshav-laptop MS_Windows_Softwares_64-bit]$ wine MediaCoder-x64-0.7.3.4625.exe
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/keshav_pr/.wine'
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:mmdevapi:load_libopenal Couldn't load libopenal.so.1: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (127).
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library urlmon.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\itss.dll") not found
err:mmdevapi:load_libopenal Couldn't load libopenal.so.1: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library urlmon.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mshtml.dll") not found
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library urlmon.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msi.dll") not found
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msi.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library urlmon.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msi.dll") not found
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msi.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library msi.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msiexec.exe") not found
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"msxml3.dll": libxml2.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\qmgr.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library urlmon.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\qmgr.dll") not found
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
wine: configuration in '/home/keshav_pr/.wine' has been updated.
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library urlmon.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\keshav_pr\\Temp\\nspc25.tmp\\OCSetupHlp.dll") not found
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"WININET.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library WININET.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\keshav_pr\\Temp\\nspc25.tmp\\OCSetupHlp.dll") failed (error c000007a).
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (127).
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"wininet.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library wininet.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\urlmon.dll") failed (error c000007a).
err:module:import_dll Library urlmon.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\keshav_pr\\Temp\\nspc25.tmp\\OCSetupHlp.dll") not found
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"WININET.dll": libz.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:import_dll Loading library WININET.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\users\\keshav_pr\\Temp\\nspc25.tmp\\OCSetupHlp.dll") failed (error c000007a).
While trying to run a win32 app
[keshav_pr@keshav-laptop MS_Windows_Softwares_32-bit]$ wine Convert.exe
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winex11.drv": libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (127).
Last edited by skodabenz (2010-07-23 15:45:43)