Does WoW64 support enable use of 32 bit programs on recent Mac?

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frankplow
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Does WoW64 support enable use of 32 bit programs on recent Mac?

Post by frankplow »

Wine 7.18 added support for WoW64 on MacOS. Is it possible to use this to run 32 bit programs on MacOS > 10.15 and if so, how? I have tried naively installing wine-devel and running 32 bit programs using wine64, but this results in the same error as prior to the addition of WoW64 support.

Thanks for all the work, I realise what a feat this is.
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Re: Does WoW64 support enable use of 32 bit programs on recent Mac?

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Currently no as there’s still some additional patches that need to be merged upstream to enable this but it currently breaks printers globally.

There’s also no OpenGL support for 32Bit applications.

It’s also still currently rather annoying to build and doesn’t launch in the usual expected fashion, once these the feature is enabled and somewhat functional it will be enabled and usable.
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Re: Does WoW64 support enable use of 32 bit programs on recent Mac?

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Thanks for the thorough response.
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