I'm creating a 32-bit prefix, but it's still 64-bit

[COOLak]

Can I get some help please?

I already have a 64-bit prefix and would like to keep it, but also I would like to have a 32-bit prefix.

Currently Wine is set to 32-bit mode.

See my terminal log:

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erik@MacBook-Pro-Erik ~ % env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine32 WINEARCH=win32 winecfg
wine: WINEARCH set to win32 but '/Users/erik/.wine32' is a 64-bit installation.

And I can confirm that it's a 64-bit installation being created indeed by seeing SysWOW64 folder in Windows.

Just to clarify, there wasn't a folder .wine32 before entering this command.

I tried with different folder names, same result.

Anyone can tell me what's going on here?

[COOLak]

Tried via WineTricks:

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Creating WINEPREFIX "/Users/erik/.local/share/wineprefixes/wine-win32" with WINEARCH=win32
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wine: created the configuration directory '/Users/erik/.local/share/wineprefixes/wine-win32'
wine: WINEARCH set to win32 but '/Users/erik/.local/share/wineprefixes/wine-win32' is a 64-bit installation.

What the...? It literally was creating a 32-bit prefix, but it ended up 64-bit. Again....

[Gcenx]

it’s not currently possible to generate a 32Bit wineprefix using WoW64 mode and that’s all that’s available for macOS Catalina & later.

[COOLak]

it’s not currently possible to generate a 32Bit wineprefix using WoW64 mode

But according to my terminal output, my Wine in fact IS in 32-bit mode..?

[Gcenx]

it’s not currently possible to generate a 32Bit wineprefix using WoW64 mode

But according to my terminal output, my Wine in fact IS in 32-bit mode..?

Your own provided output shows the should have generated a 32Bit prefix but it actually a 64Bit prefix.

CrossOver contains some additional hacks that make it possible to generate 32Bit prefixes, eventually they should get fixed upstream though honestly I’ve found no reason to use a 32Bit prefix for years now.