i wonder how many windows binaries we have in total... and what subset of
them might actually benefit from being x86-64? might adb run faster with
more registers? probably not? would aapt2? does anything else even have
runtimes long enough that anyone *could* notice?

(the toolchain has been 64-bit for years, so nothing to be gained there.)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 13:01 enh <[email protected]> wrote:

> but see the commit message for my zipalign fix, which points out that
> switching to a 64-bit windows build doesn't help with this bug anyway.
>
> (this also means that windows64 is a wholly untested _variant_ of
> 64-bitness --- my fear is that windows32 is safer because at least
> windows32 is similar to 32-bit linux, whereas windows64 went with LLP64
> rather than unix's LP64. which is why a 64-bit build doesn't fix zipalign
> in the same way it did for the unixes. at _some_ point our general 32-bit
> support will have bitrotted to the extent that it might be worth taking
> your chances with windows64, but that's probably closer to 2030.)
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 12:51 PM 'Dan Willemsen' via Android Building <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> There is build system support for 64-bit windows binaries, but it's not
>> very well tested. A change like
>> https://android-review.git.corp.google.com/c/platform/build/+/2645079 will
>> produce a 64-bit zipalign.exe.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:25 PM 'enh' via Android Building <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> i suspect they mean "i want
>>> https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/build/+/2380864";,
>>> the commit message for which mentions that there's no 64-bit Windows build
>>> support (but you shouldn't need it either --- the OS doesn't support zip64,
>>> so there'd be little use in being able to generate/modify zip64 files :-) ).
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 12:09 PM Fabien Sanglard <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What do you mean by "32-bit limitation". Are you talking about zip64
>>>> file format?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 11:53 AM John <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I manage to compile zipalign on Linux and it outputs as linux-x86 and
>>>>> windows-x86. The question is how do I compile as 64-bit? I need 64-bit of
>>>>> zipalign.exe to avoid 32-bit limitation
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