https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48533
--- Comment #12 from ryan@rnrcarpet.com ---
If your application works in a 64-bit environment, then there is probably not much reason to try to build 32-bit Wine.
Could be that I'm thinking it was but it wasn't. But of course, I did try it with a 32bit only prefix and it wouldn't install so took that to mean 32 bit wouldn't be needed. Missed the Wow64 part of the wine guide because of that. Crazy me.
Might as well exhaust the possibility at this point before trying Ubuntu as I have to partition and install that to an old laptop which will take forever to build wine.