WINE 1.1.15 Arrives With Cross-Compilation Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WINE 1.1.15 Arrives With Cross-Compilation Support

In the past two weeks a fair amount of work has been made within the WINE development camp. WINE 1.1.15 was released this morning with five major changes, on top of various bug-fixes and other work...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzA2NQ

[bulletxt]

I really like how WINE is getting better in time. I've used it a lot of times for small windows applications that avoided me to reboot on that OS making me save time.

[timofonic]

Any news about Wine64 both in executing 64bit apps and running it in x86 64bit?

[MetalheadGautham]

Wine64 is all but useless. Win64 codecs are fine, but why Wine64 ?
Hardly any apps to warrant for its need.

[grantek]

It needs to be developed though, so that when 64-bit Windows apps are mainstream they're ready. Plus it's probably a fun technical challenge

[bulletxt]

It needs to be developed though, so that when 64-bit Windows apps are mainstream they're ready. Plus it's probably a fun technical challenge

"so that when 64-bit Windows apps are mainstream they're ready."
lol.
Windows and it's apps will go 64bit only after post-Windows 7. So there will be time before you see all Window's apps go 64bit.... maybe even 5 years.

[Kano]

That crosscompiling "support" introduced new compile errors when used with --build/host options. Really annoying.