Why does Wine need multilib?

Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

It seems odd to me, Wine reimplements an entire 32-bit OS anyway so why does it need 32-bit libs on the native side?

jburns · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:56 am Post subject:

Wine does not reimplement an entire 32-bit OS. It runs under the linux OS and needs the multilib libraries to support running 32 bit programs and interfacing with the OS.

yoshi314 · l33t Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 850 Location: PL

wine translates/forwards certain system calls to system (linux) librariies.

a system call from 32bit app into a 64bit library and back could be messy.
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