Florian Weimer wrote:
And I thought Wine can run 32-bit Windows applications against 64-bit system libraries these days? Or at least it's getting there. Then Wine wouldn't be a reason to keep 32-bit builds around.
| *** WoW64 | | - The 64-bit Windows-on-Windows (WoW64) architecture is implemented, and | supports running a 32-bit Windows application inside a 64-bit Unix | host process, using thunks to map 32-bit NT system calls to the 64-bit | NTDLL. | | - WoW64 thunks are implemented for most Unix libraries, enabling a | 32-bit PE module to call a 64-bit Unix library. Once the remaining | modules are converted to PE, this will make it possible to run 32-bit | applications without installing 32-bit Unix libraries.
"Once the remaining modules are converted to PE" should be now:
https://www.winehq.org/news/2023012401 | Wine 8.0 Released | January 24, 2023 [snip] | The main achievement is the completion of the conversion to PE format.
Kevin Kofler