Hi Matthias If I understand correctly this will still allow to build x86 binaries for the Windows OS, right? It would only be a problem if our builds had to be compiled in a x86 OS? Regards, Pedro
> On 11/11/2022 4:26 PM WET Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > FYI, long announced. > > Regards, > > Matthias > > > -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Betreff: Cygwin x86 end-of-life > Datum: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:50:33 +0000 > Von: Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> > mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk > An: cygwin-annou...@cygwin.com mailto:cygwin-annou...@cygwin.com > > > > As has previously been announced, Cygwin is dropping support for x86 Windows. > Cygwin 3.3.6 is the final version supporting x86 (32-bit) Windows, and the > forthcoming Cygwin 3.4 will be released for x86_64 only. > > Concurrent with that, updates to x86 packages will be stopped, and the Cygwin > x86 package repository will be archived. > > (Instructions on the special steps needed to install from that archive will > be forthcoming, once we've worked out what they are.) > > If you're using x86 Cygwin under WOW64 on a 64-bit Windows OS, please > strongly consider moving to an x86_64 Cygwin installation. > > (If you have ARM hardware, we believe that x86_64 Cygwin works correctly > using the x86_64 emulation in Windows 11) > > If you're one of the tiny percentage of Cygwin users using x86 Cygwin on a > real x86 Windows OS, don't panic! The current installation will continue to > run on your system. You just won't get any more updates. >
