wine64 can't run 32-bit app regardless WINEARCH=win32 and WINEPREFIX

[ivanzinhoa]

I have successfully built 32-bit and 64-bit Helloworld Windows console applications using Mingw64 compiler, I tested them on WinXPx86 and Win7x86-64 respectively, now I tried out the 64-bit app using Wine64 which works perfect but the 32-bit version doesn't work regardless WINEARCH=win32 and WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 variables are set, the error says:

wine: '' is a 32-bit installation, it cannot support 64-bit applications.

This error doesn't make sense, I triple-checked the app being 32-bit, I named the folders and files appropriately, as I said I tested the apps on Windows, it should work.

My system is Debian 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 (2018-05-08)

Wine is 1.6.2

how do I run this 32-bit Helloworld using Wine on my system? What am I doing wrong?

[dimesio]

Wine is 1.6.2

Your Wine version is 7 years old and hasn't been supported in years. The current stable release is 6.0.

[ivanzinhoa]

Wine is 1.6.2

Your Wine version is 7 years old and hasn't been supported in years. The current stable release is 6.0.

So, because it's old then does that mean I should not use it???

I just had to add Multiarch Binaries installation... now it runs as expected...

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine32
wine32 hello32.exe

[dimesio]

So, because it's old then does that mean I should not use it???

You can use whatever version you want. You can't get support or file bugs for anything older than 6.0.

I just had to add Multiarch Binaries installation... now it runs as expected...

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

That is exactly what our instructions say to do. https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian