[wine-devel] Troubles configuring and building wine-1.5.30 on Debian wheezy

[André Hentschel]

Am 21.05.2013 10:10, schrieb Alan W. Irwin:
> On 2013-05-20 20:24-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> So here are my questions and further comments:
>>
>> 1. Is there a way to stick with a pure 64-bit Wine system, or is that
>> normally pretty useless because downloaded applications such as the
>> Cygwin installer which apparently is 32-bit, i.e.,
>>
>> wine at raven> file setup.exe
>> setup.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386 (stripped to external
>> PDB), for MS Windows, UPX compressed
>>
>> wont run on it?
> 
> I would appreciate an answer to this question, and if the answer is a
> standalone wine64 build should work, how do you run the above
> setup.exe?

To finally answer this: pure wine64 can't run 32-bit applications, you need wine32 or a wow64 setup for this.