Here's how you build Wine on a 64-bit system: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit On Ubuntu it involves chroot, because Wine

Here's how you build Wine on a 64-bit system: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit On Ubuntu it involves chroot, because Wine is apparently fundamentally dependent on a 32-bit architecture. Probably related to it implementing the Win32 API.