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very close to the 80% of XP (minus a small percentage which will pass
to Linux), as people buy new machines (Vista pre-installed) and
software houses stabilise their ports for Vista.

It seems that the migration from Windows 98/2000 to XP followed the
same path.

  >>If you do manage to build a 64-bit chain for the VST support you'll only 
  >>be able to run 64-bit plugins. The Wine 64-bit build is very specific 
  >>about its application, it will not run 32-bit binaries.

  DJ> Yes, we need the Wine side of things to stay 32-bit for now. But 
  DJ> nspluginwrapper proves that a 32-bit plugin can run in a 64-bit host 
  DJ> (albeit without the added complication of Windows API support).

Correct.

  >>However, there is another (partial) solution. I installed the wine and 
  >>libwine packages for 0.9.34 (amd64) from 
  >>http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/ and I can now run Reaper with 
  >>some VSTs. I do not claim to know how or why this works. Note that only 
  >>the target machine is amd64, the build is actually for 32-bits. I assume 
  >>it's making use of the emul32 stuff.

For the record we have also our own backports:

http://apt.64studio.com/backports/pool/main/w/wine/

which are more recent than the ones at b.p.o (0.9.44 vs. 0.9.34).

The are available in the testing branch, both for amd64 and i386. I've
run Repear as well with no problem on amd64, but of course no jack.

  DJ> It must be, otherwise it would refuse to run. This does sound the most 
  DJ> promising angle for now - we have all the packages (for the Linux side) 
  DJ> in our i386 repository. There's also the possibility that we could 
  DJ> package the LGPL version of VSTHost for Windows somehow.

  >>Wine will not currently compile on 64Studio, the package 
  >>gcc-4.1-multilib needs installed along with its devel package.

AFIACT that build-dependency is not strictly needed, but I might wrong.

  DJ> We'll have to look into that. We have packages of 0.9.44 in the testing 
  DJ> branch, in the meantime.

  >>If someone does master the 
  >>64-bit VST tango, I hope they'll illustrate the steps for the rest of 
  >>us. :)

  DJ> Naturally - maybe we can get some of those paper cut-out footprints that 
  DJ> you stick on the floor ;-)

:)

Ciao,

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