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
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