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@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.