On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be fair my head spins in Linux-land trying to work out what all these > 32's and 64's mean: mingw-w64-x86-64
There aren't any 32s in that. The beginning of that probably means the Win64 version of MinGW, which (IIRC) is distinctly different from the Win32 version (a project fork, or something); the end of it is the architecture, x86-64, meaning "Intel 64-bit". Sometimes that's described as AMD64, to distinguish it from IA-64, the Intel Itanium 64-bit architecture. The "86" in the name derives from 8086 and family. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
