wine users - Jan 2011 - Universal procedure to know if wine can run 32 bits apps

Hi,
I'm preparing a training session on avisynth (running under wine) for a
local linux user group (LUG). In the list of prerequisites for people attending
this training session, they will have to install wine on their computer. Since
we will be using only the 32 bits version of avisynth, it will be mandatory that
their version of wine is able to run 32 bits apps.
My problem is that I neither know in advance which distribution people will be
running, nor each distribution's policy regarding wine on 64 bits platforms.
So there's a possibility that some people come to the training with a 64
bits-only version of wine - not likely, but not impossible.
I would like to know if there's a simple and universal procedure to know if
wine if able to run 32 bits apps. Of course, one can try to run a 32 bits
windows app to know that, but I would like this procedure to be even simpler,
accessible to people that would install wine for the very first time. This
procedure would also have to be distro-independant.
I tried 'wine --version' and various commands, but I didn't find how
to do that...
Help would be greatly appreciated  :D

ganymede wrote:
> I would like to know if there's a simple and universal procedure to
know if wine if able to run 32 bits apps.

With this command Wine will refuse to run if you user has only wine-64:

Code:
TMP=$(mktemp -d); WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=$TMP/test wine winecfg; wineserver
-w; rm -rf $TMP

Thanks.