wine: WINEARCH is set to 'win32' but this is not supported in wow64 mode.

[Cyao1234]

I want to use wine in 32 bit mode, I tried to create a 32bit prefix with

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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg

but it gives me this error:

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wine: WINEARCH is set to 'win32' but this is not supported in wow64 mode.

How can I fix this?

I'm using wine devel, but also tried with wine staging installed with brew

[dchmelik]

I have same problem on stable WINE.

[dimesio]

There is nothing you can fix. Since Apple removed 32 bit support from macOS, Wine on that platform can only run in the new WoW64 mode, which as the message says, does not support WINEARCH=win32. You should be able to install and run 32 bit programs in the WoW64 wineprefix. You will not be able to run 16 bit programs.

[dchmelik]

I'm on GNU/Linux, not Apple.

[dimesio]

I'm on GNU/Linux, not Apple.

So why are you trying to hijack a post in the macOS subforum?

My reply was meant for the original poster, but the answer is true for WoW64 mode on Linux, too. The message means what it says.

[rin67630]

You should be able to install and run 32 bit programs in the WoW64 wineprefix.

But my 32 bit program (corel photoimpact X3) does not run with wine 9.0
The programm installs wo error, but does nothing when started from explorer.exe
Is it anything I can do to get it running?