wine users - Apr 2012 - Compiling 32-bit Wine on 64-bit Debian system

Hi.

I was thinking of trying that out, and I saw this:

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit#head-b62ae8f996e97e1df7258bb8eaec2e83e54ca799

If I'm getting this right, that means that in order to do this, I'll
need to download and compile GCC and glibc and so on from source for 32-bit, and
then download and compile every library that Wine depends on from source for 32
bit, and all those libraries' dependences, and all their dependencies, and
so on and so forth running up to potentially hundreds of libraries from source
for 32-bit! Is that right? As that seems like a tremendous task. We could be
talking literally hundreds of packages -- essentially compiling a complete
Debian system right up next to the one I've got. Or am I missing something
here? I also notice my Debian has a "lib32" folder with some stuff in
it.

mike3 wrote:
> If I'm getting this right, that means that in order to do this,
Pretty much. Only you don't need to do anything more then installing some
packages. Unless you are using not multi-arch system of course.

Most distros are multi-arch and have already done compiling for you - you can
install compat 32-bit libraries.