To clarify Rakudo itself *should* compile on 32 bit Windows systems (using either MSVC or mingw and maybe cygwin).
The problem with Rakudo Star is that some of the C based modules probably don't work. S On 25 July 2017 at 20:46, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Mark Carter <alt.mcar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 25/07/2017 20:31, Darren Duncan wrote: >>> >>> I would question why any desktop computer manufacturers were still even >>> shipping non-64-bit capable hardware in 2010. >> >> I dual-boot (rarely) with it, and it runs 64-bit Ubuntu. I am using a >> Dell, which came with 32-bit Win 7. > > > For quite a long time, the "common wisdom" was that 64 bit was a waste of > memory on smaller machines and caused compatibility problems, so > 64-bit-capable hardware running 32-bit OSes was quite common. > > (For Windows the latter is actually true, insofar as 64 bit processes can't > load 32 bit DLLs and 32 bit programs are actually run in a minimal > hypervisor on Win10. This was less well developed when Win7 was current; the > hypervisor only ran WinXP iirc, not 32 bit W7.) > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates > allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net -- 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com>
