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Last edited by Alexandre Julliard

This page is for notes on porting the 64-bit version of Wine to the AMD64 architecture (a.k.a. x64 or x86-64) and the WoW64 setup, which allows running both 32 and 64-bit Windows apps from the same instance of Wine.

ABI Differences

There are some major differences between the x86-64 ABI on Windows and other operating systems. Here's a short list of some of the major ones:

  • The long datatype is 32 bits on Windows but is 64 bits on some OSes (such as Linux)
  • Calling conventions often differ
  • Different registers may be used for passing parameters

See the reference documents at the bottom of this page for the complete picture

Consistent 32-bit Support

Ideally, Building Wine, running the Conformance Tests, and execution should be consistent across configurations. That's just as relevant when comparing 32-bit and 64-bit apps, or running apps on a stand-alone 32-bit build of Wine vs. the 32-bit components of a WoW64 setup.

One quick way to see simpler differences between the vanilla 32-bit and WoW64 builds is to scan the make and test logs from separate build directories. Here's a simple script that simply outputs message counts for different directories...

for dir in wine32 wine64
do
    echo $dir
    cd $dir
    echo -n "ok:  "; find . -name '*.ok' | wc -l
    echo -n "err: "; grep ok.*Error test.log | wc -l
    cd ..
done

This is actually a pretty good idea; if expanded upon, it could be pretty effective, maybe even for the automated test suite

See Also

On Wine Wiki:

Porting Guides:

Reference Documents: