general/other How to get a 32 bit Wine working in 2026?

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I have a 16-current that wants Wine, with 32 bit Wine. The old scripts recommended when you start Wine don't work anymore since no 32 bit FreeBSD packages are being built.

So I guess I have to set up a 32 bit jail or VM and build Wine myself. But how do I insert the resulting 32 bit pkg into my 64 bit install?

Anyone did that lately?
 
As far as I understood the changes in Wine 11.0, those aren't needed any more. The FreeBSD port of Wine might not do the right thing yet though.

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The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 11.0 is now available. This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300...
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WoW64 on FreeBSD is a bit hit or miss, as far as I know (and merged recently on the non devel wine package), the solution for 32bit is:

/usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh --old install -r FreeBSD-ports wine mesa-dri

Please note that 14 must have the same version as 15/16 for it work.

From this PR I got the impression that wine-devel may have wow64 enabled but not the normal wine?

Also note that what is stated on the PRs about the performance of OpenGL being 30% lower on 32bit wine checks out.
 
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