If it's actually now somehow the case that an offer to provide Win64 builds would be refused though, I guess maybe I'll look into hosting them myself somewhere else? Although again I don't get why it would be fine for Linux to have a zillion archives for different configurations here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/3.2.2/
but in some way bad to add one more to the windows files directory on the Sourceforge page. On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 5:32 AM Ben Grasset <operato...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 3:46 AM Sven Barth via fpc-devel < > fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > >> Ben Grasset via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am >> So., 19. Dez. 2021, 08:33: >> >>> To be very clear, to me, this is absolutely nothing more than just a >>> matter of building the compiler completely normally. It takes like two >>> minutes all-in. I don't really get why the person who uploads the 32-bit >>> Windows builds currently doesn't just also upload 64-bit ones. They could >>> even just use the native 64-bit builds Lazarus already includes. Anyways, >>> yeah. I'd like to actually make this happen, next time around. >>> >> >> There is already a combined 32-/64-bit download available since 3.2.2. We >> *won't* provide a pure, native 64-bit download for Win64, because the >> x86_64-win64 is not suitable for other x86_64 targets or for compiling a >> i386 or i8064 cross compiler due to the missing Extended support. Until FPC >> provides the necessary code to emulate 80-bit floating point we simply >> avoid this potential headache by not providing it. >> As this has been discussed ad nauseam already, this decision is not up >> for discussion. >> >> Regards, >> Sven >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org >> https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel > > > Explicitly *not *wanting to provide a native x86_64 bit build was not > ever mentioned by anyone previously in any discussion I was involved in > actually. Quite the opposite IIRC. I also fail to see how that makes any > sense, personally. It just means continuing to tell everyone who wants > native Win64 (which is very many people) "either download Lazarus or use > FPCUpDeluxe". >
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