From the comments, WSL2 is not needed: The procedure to use 32-bit under WSL-1 is the following: enable i386 architecture install multilibs instal

From the comments, WSL2 is not needed: The procedure to use 32-bit under WSL-1 is the following: enable i386 architecture install multilibs install qemu-user-static register 32-bit elf magic to be executed through qemu-i386-static: $ sudo update-binfmts --install i386 /usr/bin/qemu-i386-static --magic '\x7fELF\x01\x01\x01\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x03\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00' --mask '\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfc\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xf8\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff' reload binfmt: $ sudo service binfmt-support start and it executes x86 elf on WSL More info on this technique here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42120938/exec-format-error-32-bit-executable-windows-subsystem-for-linux https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42120938/exec-format-err...