debian: add Wine with proper 64-bit prefix initialization by mapitman · Pull Request #36

debian: add Wine with proper 64-bit prefix initialization by mapitman · Pull Request #36 · mapitman/linux-bootstrap

Summary

Install Wine on Debian with correct 64-bit prefix initialization so both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows apps work out of the box.

Changes

Enable i386 multiarch (dpkg --add-architecture i386)
Install wine and wine32:i386
Initialize a 64-bit Wine prefix via WINEARCH=win64 wineboot --init

Why

Without explicit prefix initialization, the syswow64 directory is left empty. This causes 32-bit Windows installers (even those with "Win64" in the name) to fail with:

wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135

Running wineboot --init with WINEARCH=win64 creates a proper 64-bit prefix with WoW64 support, allowing both 32-bit and 64-bit apps to run.