diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
index 455f9e2..2f8fb83 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/release.yml
@@ -78,8 +78,11 @@ jobs:
           # prefix and call ISCC.exe via Wine — much more reliable than running
           # the whole interactive installer through Wine + Xvfb (which failed
           # silently in the previous iteration).
+          # ISCC.exe is a 32-bit binary even from Inno Setup 6 — without
+          # wine32:i386 wine bails with "init_peb starting ... in experimental
+          # wow64 mode / failed to load syswow64/ntdll.dll error c0000135".
           DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            wine wine64 innoextract xvfb xauth curl ca-certificates \
+            wine wine64 wine32:i386 innoextract xvfb xauth curl ca-certificates \
             >/dev/null
           export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine"
           export WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mscoree,mshtml="