Tips for avoiding bloat with Wine's multilib dependencies?

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  • static-wine32

    A Docker recipe for building a statically compiled 32-bit Wine for x86_64

  • Statically compiled Wine library through Docker Sounds like this wouldn't introduce the burden of installing multilib dependencies onto the host. Although the project itself is still in an experimental phase and honestly it seems like this approach asks for more trouble than it's worth even though it's extremely neat: https://github.com/MIvanchev/static-wine32

  • docker-wine

    Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS

  • Docker container This alternative would eat more resources than necessary as an additional OS would be running in the background. I've also noticed that displaying the application in X11/Wayland this way seems to introduce an overhead if no GPU is shared with the container (which is negligible with the proper configuration): https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine

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  • AppImageKit

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  • AppImage This seems like a convenient way of keeping Wine isolated from rest of the system. However, the documentation is still in research phase for this: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-Windows-applications https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher https://github.com/sudo-give-me-coffee/wine32-deploy

  • go-appimage

    Go implementation of AppImage tools

  • AppImage This seems like a convenient way of keeping Wine isolated from rest of the system. However, the documentation is still in research phase for this: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-Windows-applications https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher https://github.com/sudo-give-me-coffee/wine32-deploy

  • AppImageLauncher

    Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

  • AppImage This seems like a convenient way of keeping Wine isolated from rest of the system. However, the documentation is still in research phase for this: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-Windows-applications https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher https://github.com/sudo-give-me-coffee/wine32-deploy

  • wine32-deploy

    A tool to creating AppImages for 32-bit Microsoft Windows® applications

  • AppImage This seems like a convenient way of keeping Wine isolated from rest of the system. However, the documentation is still in research phase for this: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-Windows-applications https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher https://github.com/sudo-give-me-coffee/wine32-deploy

  • Conty

    Easy to use unprivileged Linux container packed into a single portable executable

  • Conty This looks interesting as most of the things are ready to go. Not sure if there's any bottlenecks with this approach: https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty

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  • proton-ge-custom

    Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

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