[Bug 53529] New: Make possible to use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53529

Bug ID: 53529
           Summary: Make possible to use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2
                    32-bit preloader, without hacks
           Product: Wine
           Version: 7.14
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Some references of this limitation of wine:

- https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-Windows-applications
- https://github.com/Hackerl/Wine_Appimage/issues/11
- https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/361

The issue is that, although it is possible to use another preloader, wine seems
to launch instances that still use the standard ld.so.2 path instead of the
modified one.

More details:

- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2017-November/119906.html
- https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2017-November/119944.html

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53529

formigoni  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Make possible to use wine   |Use wine with custom
                   |with custom ld-linux.so.2   |ld-linux.so.2 32-bit
                   |32-bit preloader, without   |preloader, without hacks
                   |hacks                       |

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53529

--- Comment #1 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
Did you try the suggested hack? Does it work?

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53529

--- Comment #2 from formigoni  ---
(In reply to Alexandre Julliard from comment #1)
> Did you try the suggested hack? Does it work?

Thanks for the reply. I Managed to get it working with this guide:

- https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-Windows-applications

The other pre-packaged wine versions would segfault for me, so creating the
appimage was the way to go. To know all the information needed to do this, and
find these useful links, took me a few days of research and understanding libc,
library paths, preloader, etc. That is why I opened this issue, creating 32-bit
portable wine applications is really appealing, but for someone else that has
less knowledge it might not be viable or too time consuming.

So as stated in the guide, it would be nice to solve this issue just with this
snipped, as is for other programs:

wget -c
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-i386_2.24-9ubuntu2...
dpkg -x ./libc6*.deb .

HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "${0}")")"

WINEPREFIX="$HERE/wineprefix/" \
  "$HERE/lib32/ld-linux.so.2"  \
  --library-path "$HERE/lib32" \
  "$HERE/wine-stable/bin/wine" \
  "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/App/App.exe"  "$@"

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53529

--- Comment #3 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
OK, I see. That's probably good enough for now.

The plan is to make it possible to run 32-bit apps with only 64-bit host
libraries, so that would be a better long term strategy that adding hacks for
the 32-bit ld-linux.so.

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53529

formigoni  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |FIXED
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED

--- Comment #4 from formigoni  ---
Fixed by wow64 in jammy builds.

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

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Zeb Figura  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #5 from Zeb Figura  ---
(In reply to formigoni from comment #4)
> Fixed by wow64 in jammy builds.

What do you mean by this? wow64 isn't fully implemented upstream...

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

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--- Comment #6 from formigoni  ---
Hi, although that is the case, the issues seems to be fixed. The "No such file
or directory" is gone and wine opens. I conducted some testing here:
https://github.com/mmtrt/WINE_AppImage/issues/15, an appimage built on ubuntu
jammy works on focal and bionic, without the need to install libc6-i386.

[Bug 53529] Use wine with custom ld-linux.so.2 32-bit preloader, without hacks

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53529

Alexandre Julliard  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #7 from Alexandre Julliard  ---
Closing bugs fixed in 7.22.