Win32 exe on Wine64

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zusman
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Win32 exe on Wine64

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I (along with many others) am trying to get Simplicity Studio working on my new M1 MacBook. The Keil C compiler is a 32-bit Windows exe.
I have read that it’s possible to execute 32-bit exe's under wine64, as long as the right libraries are linked in. But, nothing more concrete than that.
Has anyone done this?
What would it take to build a special version of wine64 that only handled 32-bit exe’s?
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Re: Win32 exe on Wine64

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You don’t, wine64 only runs 64Bit Windows binaries where wine runs 32Bit Windows binaries.
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Re: Win32 exe on Wine64

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How does Cross over do this?
So many win-apps have 32-bit installer and it handles these.
There aren't any howto's for the last 3 years for mac?
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Re: Win32 exe on Wine64

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Crossover has a custom compiler (modified clang) and a few other tricks to allow 32bit binaries to run on 64bit only macOS.
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