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Hi, as in the title I'm requesting to implement the possibility to choose the arch of a new prefix. I'm using a 64bit system and all prefixes follow system arch, but this make some application unable to install/run. F.i. today have tested "Dragon Naturrally Speaking 11": in a 64bit prefix environment installation fails (during installation of visual c++ 9.0 x64), while if I add

export WINEARCH=win32

to /usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux, it installs, and runs, fine (it installs visual c++ 9.0 x86).

So a per app WINEARCH option should be fine.

Regards

Edited by pollux

That's weird, POL is by default 32bits built wineversions

All my playonlinux.cfg in my prefixes contain this row:

ARCH=amd64

The one in dragon11 (created with WINEARCH=win32) contains

ARCH=x86

EDIT: well, actually not all; steam has ARCH=x86; other prefixes were created without pol scripts, but manually

Edited by pollux

What POL version do you have?

What POL version do you have?

4.0.12

Is your system wine version 64 bits?

I'm using Chakra Linux 64bit (Archlinux derivate). Wine for the 64bit system is a multilib package (both in Archlinux and Chakra).

In /usr/bin/ there are two wine* executables: wine and wine64:


$ file /usr/bin/wine
/usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.27, stripped

$ file /usr/bin/wine64
/usr/bin/wine64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.27, stripped

Yep, you have a 64bits wineversion. That is why PlayOnLinux makes 64bits prefix

Ok, but is it possible to handle such situation directly on pol during a manual installation?

Yep,

You could make a feature request on the bug tracker

Done: http://www.playonmac.com/en/issue-474.html