Can offer some 32-bit distrubution for choose?

[xqdd]

I found that run or compile the 32-bit project under the 64-bit system is a very troublesome event there are lots of compatibility errors. So can we simply use a 32-bit Linux distribution under 64-bit win10?

Why we need it? The reason is some arm CPU is 32-bit and only can run 32-bit ELF, so we need cross compile under WLS.

Why can't we just compile under Qemu, VMware, VirtualBox or a real Linux environment? Because WSL is very handy and faster than all of the virtual tool above.

[benhillis]

I was curious so I tried importing http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/releases/x86/alpine-minirootfs-3.10.0-x86.tar.gz on WSL2 and it works like a charm.

[therealkenc]

Calling this ran course. It wasn't actually clear from the OP whether he/she wanted a x86 32-bit Linux distribution or a 32-bit Arm Linux distribution.

The latter being entirely doable under QEMU, and I suppose common for ARM-type people. For example, Arch still humors soft float ARMv5te.

The former, which Ben tried, gets an easy "yes of course works". But conflates the second paragraph of the OP stating "some arm CPU is 32-bit", which doesn't have a lot to do with 32-bit x86. Except, to the extent, some Arm cross compilation tooling (read: yocto) is I gather built 32-bit x86 for reasons. But that use case is already covered well by the fact that Ubuntu x64 multiarch works fine out of the box on WSL2. There is no need to spin a 32-bit Alpine (and a few good reasons not to) in order to run Yocto.

[That is all notwithstanding this week's brouhaha about Canonical dropping x86 support. That would make those Arm people's heads explode, nevermind #1644 Steam or #2258 Wine. ]