"The Wine development release 9.1 is now available."
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.1

"The Wine development release 9.2 is now available."
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.2

Is there any way to run 32-bit windows app on wine in all 64-bit totally (WoW64) without relying on 32-bit wine libraries?

There are two:

1. Install a distribution which supplies 32bit libraries. I know Slackware does, but I know others do also.
2. Install wine-9.0 or better on any distro.

As of wine-9.0, you need to set a configure option at build time to enable the 'new WoW64 mode' which doesn't need 32-bit libraries. Most Wine packages probably won't have this set.

Since AlienBob's wine packages have always worked for me, I decided to compile the latest stable (wine-9.0), using his buildscript and including latest gecko, mono, and staging. Took 1 hr 15 mins on my HP laptop with intel core i7-4510U processor. The very few programs (32 and 64 bit) I run under wine (I'm not a gamer) runs without glitches.

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Did you try the Wow64 on wine 9.0 or later?

As said in my post, I'm not a gamer...

Same here, I always just use Alien Bob's SlackBuild for wine and just version bump and modify a few things as needed. The only thing about his script I permanently change is his winecfg logo. It's a weird looking svg with a bunch russian nesting doll looking wine glasses, it doesn't work for me, so I created my own in coreldraw and replaced it with that.

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WoW64 is a means by which 32-bit programs are run in 64-bit space. Not WoW, the game. (Easy to mistake...I read one for the other every time I see the term.)

WoW64 means Windows on Windows 64-bit. A method used by MS Windows to run 32-bit programs in 64-bit. In Wine, it requires 32-bit version of wine to run 32-bit windows programs on 64-bit. On wine 9.0 or later release, it can run 32-bit windows in all 64-bit wine without relying on 32-bit wine.

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OK, thanks, sorry for being ignorant. No, haven't tried WoW64. AlienBob's wine package is/was built to handle 32bit programs provided you have a multilib setup (that's the reason why I went multilib with my first 64bit machine). Since it works, I haven't had a reason to try somenthing else.
But an interesting novelty and maybe I'll check it out in the future.

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"The Wine development release 9.4 is now available."
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.4

"The Wine development release 9.5 is now available."
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.5

Hi,

Just upgraded to wine 9.0-2 from slackbuilds.org, from wine 9.0. Running Slackware 15 64-bit multilib.

I have two different prefixes, one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. With the previous wine 9.0 version, I had no problem using either. With the new one, only the 64-bit prefix works. Trying to run anything from the 32-bit prefix returns this:

Obviously, the new slackbuild enabled WoW64. Is there a way to disable WoW64 in run time? I don't like the idea of re-installing the 32-bit windows apps. Otherwise, I suppose that I will have to recompile wine.

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