https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37784
Bug ID: 37784 Summary: No warning to user that wine-mono will not be installed to a 64 bit wineprefix unless wine64 is explicitly invoked Product: Wine Version: 1.3.33 Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: mscoree Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: dimesio@earthlink.net Distribution: ---
Filing this based on https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37772#c2.
The default wineprefix created by running wineboot (or anything else) on a 64 bit system is 64 bit, even if wine64 is not explicitly used. However, wine-mono is not automatically installed to a 64 bit wineprefix unless wine64 is explicitly invoked. There is no warning to the user that wine-mono is not being installed, and http://wiki.winehq.org/Mono says nothing about needing to specify wine64 to install/uninstall it in a 64 bit wineprefix.
If not installing wine-mono to a default wineprefix unless wine64 is specified is the intended behavior, there should be a warning about that in the console at wineprefix creation, and it should be documented on the Mono wiki page.