[SOLVED] Wine upgrade run-time environment from 32 bit to 64 bit. How ?
by Mike Davies from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4VWP7)
I have been using Wine since about 2006 for the odd little thing I can't do with Linux. So far I've just been using the 32 bit environment.
Now one of my Windows programs has dropped support for 32 bit, and I have been forced to use the 64 bit version.
I've got both the 32bit & 64bit versions of Wine running OK, but as two separate environments ~/.wine32 containing all my old original 32bit stuff and ~/.wine64 with the newer 64bit WoW64 stuff. Both work OK when I tell wine which WINEPREFIX to use, but there is a lot of duplication with data files etc in the two trees so I'd like to have just one with everything in.
Over the years I've done all sorts of tinkering with the registry in the 32bit environment that I do not want to loose. I really don't want to re-install all the old 32bit stuff in the 64bit environment, mainly because I don't think some things will install at all, and I've got running versions that I'd be happier to keep.
Is there some way I can merge the two WINEPREFIXs together to produce just one environment under the default ~/.wine ?
I note regedit will not import registry files. How does one merge the registries ?
Any advice gratefully received.
Now one of my Windows programs has dropped support for 32 bit, and I have been forced to use the 64 bit version.
I've got both the 32bit & 64bit versions of Wine running OK, but as two separate environments ~/.wine32 containing all my old original 32bit stuff and ~/.wine64 with the newer 64bit WoW64 stuff. Both work OK when I tell wine which WINEPREFIX to use, but there is a lot of duplication with data files etc in the two trees so I'd like to have just one with everything in.
Over the years I've done all sorts of tinkering with the registry in the 32bit environment that I do not want to loose. I really don't want to re-install all the old 32bit stuff in the 64bit environment, mainly because I don't think some things will install at all, and I've got running versions that I'd be happier to keep.
Is there some way I can merge the two WINEPREFIXs together to produce just one environment under the default ~/.wine ?
I note regedit will not import registry files. How does one merge the registries ?
Any advice gratefully received.