diff --git a/emulators/wine-devel/files/wine-wow64.sh b/emulators/wine-devel/files/wine-wow64.sh
index d83d10db698e..843e37eb5557 100644
--- a/emulators/wine-devel/files/wine-wow64.sh
+++ b/emulators/wine-devel/files/wine-wow64.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ if [ ! -f "$I386_ROOT/$PREFIX/bin/wine" ]
 then
   printf "%s doesn't exist!\n\n" "$I386_ROOT/$PREFIX/bin/wine"
   printf "Try installing 32-bit Wine with\n\t%s\n" "$PREFIX/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine-devel mesa-dri"
+  echo
+  FREEBSD_VERSION_MAJOR=`uname -r | sed "s/\..*//"`
+  echo 'If using poudriere, please make sure your repo is setup to use ${ABI} and create symlinks for FreeBSD:'\
+        $FREEBSD_VERSION_MAJOR':amd64 and FreeBSD:'$FREEBSD_VERSION_MAJOR':i386 to the relavent output directories. '\
+        'See pkg.conf(5) for more info.'
   exit 1
 fi
 
diff --git a/emulators/wine/files/wine-wow64.sh b/emulators/wine/files/wine-wow64.sh
index 2ec4cc31703e..a2225b94177e 100644
--- a/emulators/wine/files/wine-wow64.sh
+++ b/emulators/wine/files/wine-wow64.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ if [ ! -f "$I386_ROOT/$PREFIX/bin/wine" ]
 then
   printf "%s doesn't exist!\n\n" "$I386_ROOT/$PREFIX/bin/wine"
   printf "Try installing 32-bit Wine with\n\t%s\n" "$PREFIX/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine mesa-dri"
+  echo
+  FREEBSD_VERSION_MAJOR=`uname -r | sed "s/\..*//"`
+  echo 'If using poudriere, please make sure your repo is setup to use ${ABI} and create symlinks for FreeBSD:'\
+        $FREEBSD_VERSION_MAJOR':amd64 and FreeBSD:'$FREEBSD_VERSION_MAJOR':i386 to the relavent output directories. '\
+        'See pkg.conf(5) for more info.'
   exit 1
 fi