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Arch Linux Shifts to Pure WoW64 Builds for Wine and Wine-Staging

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Bobby Borisov
Jun 23, 2025

Arch Linux transitions wine and wine-staging packages to pure WoW64 builds, removing the multi-lib dependency. Thus, Wine on Arch can now run 32-bit Windows applications seamlessly on 64-bit systems without requiring separate 32-bit libraries.

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