How to add support for 32 bit applications?

Oops. I know the Windows version of the framework quite well.

Yes, you are correct, they try to compile some modules. But they do not require any of the standard Linux development tools, they use the (32bit) commandline version of their own compiler, and this step, an attempt to call a 32bit binary fails with the error message “file not found”.

On the same notebook (dual booting to siduction from a USB stick) I had also problems until I installed the 32bit architecture and the 32bit gtk libraries (as mentioned in the README.md section about Ubuntu 64bit).