Wine will not create a win32 prefix

Questions about Wine on Linux
Locked
Medora01
Level 1
Level 1
Posts: 5
Joined: Wed Feb 05, 2025 10:54 am

Wine will not create a win32 prefix

Post by Medora01 »

Why does wine 10.0 keep making a 64bit prefix when I choose WINEARCH+win32 winecfg, everytime it builds a 64bit prefix, which is useless for a 32bit app ??????????
WINEARCH=win32 winecfg WINEARCH=win32 winecfg WINEARCH=win32 winecfg WINEARCH=win32 winecfg WINEARCH=win32 winecfg WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
This seems to be only in Fedora as Ubuntu will make a win32 prefix, WHY DOES WINE 10.0 and UP BUILD A WIN64 PREFIX WHEN I TYPE WINEARCH=win32 ???????
It must be this site where the wine 10.0 is not compatible with Fedora 41, because the wine from the fedora repo works like it should.
User avatar
dimesio
Moderator
Moderator
Posts: 13367
Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:30 pm

Re: Wine will not create a win32 prefix

Post by dimesio »

As stated on our Fedora wiki page, starting with Fedora 40 our Fedora packages are new WoW64. They can run 32 bit programs from a 64 bit wineprefix, but cannot create or use a 32 bit wineprefix. The Fedora distro packages are still old WoW64, so if you have a program that truly needs a 32 bit wineprefix, use them.
Locked