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debian: add Wine with proper 64-bit prefix initialization #36

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Expand Up @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ curl -sS https://debian.griffo.io/EA0F721D231FDD3A0A17B9AC7808B4DD62C41256.asc |

echo "deb https://debian.griffo.io/apt $(lsb_release -sc 2>/dev/null) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.griffo.io.list

# Enable 32-bit architecture (required for wine32)
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

# Update package repos
sudo apt-get update

Expand All @@ -39,8 +42,17 @@ pipx \
qemu-system-x86 \
qemu-utils \
virt-manager \
wine \
wine32:i386 \
xclip

# Initialize Wine prefix (64-bit with 32-bit WoW64 support)
# Without explicit initialization, the syswow64 directory is left empty and
# 32-bit apps fail with "could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135".
if [ ! -d "$HOME/.wine" ]; then
WINEARCH=win64 WINEDEBUG=-all wineboot --init
fi

# Pango 1.56.x workaround: when FONTCONFIG_FILE is unset (or set to the default
# /etc/fonts/fonts.conf path), Pango's font-loading thread pool hits a stack
# corruption bug processing cache-11 entries for variable fonts (Cascadia Code,
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