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<p>How does one get a 64-bit version on windows. When I try to run
a 64-bit version on windows, I encounter an error, though I don't
remember what that error is, since I've not tried it for a couple
weeks. I didn't even know there was a 64-bit windows version,
because as mentioned below, linking to the 64-bit version on the
website links to a 32-bit version. Admittedly, I'm no fan of
windows, and honestly, I hate that I'm forced to use it for my
everyday work, I'd much rather use linux/macos, but at the moment,
that's not an option, though I was windows free for over 10 years
at one point, that sadly has changed over the past 5 years.
<sigh></p>
<p>But, in any case, if there's a way to get 64-bit versions on
windows, I'd like to know how.</p>
<p>Although, it may be a bit problematic for me if it requires
recompiling, since I don't (currently) have any compilers (other
than freebasic, powerbasic and free pascal) installed on my win10
machine. My win8.1 machine has them though, so that could handle
the task I'd think.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/26/2020 11:23 PM, Ben Grasset via
fpc-devel wrote:<br>
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<div>Was browsing on the FPC wiki (that is, the actual <a
href="http://wikipedia.com" moz-do-not-send="true">wikipedia.com</a>
entry for FPC) today, and came across an edit someone had made
in the "3.2.0" section that said the following:</div>
<div><br>
"FreePascal cannot be installed on macOS Catalina, and no
known workaround exists."<br>
<br>
It then linked to an open issue on the FPCUpDeluxe github
repository, suggesting that perhaps whoever made that edit
literally thought FPCUpDeluxe was the *only* reasonable way to
get FPC.</div>
<div><br>
They're partially right, and partially wrong, IMO. FPCUpDeluxe
is an excellent tool that as far I'm concerned should be
linked front-page on both the FPC and Lazarus official
websites, because it frankly blows the "download archives from
sourceforge" method of obtaining FPC out of the water, in
general.</div>
<div><br>
With that said, there's also the elephant in the room that is
the fact that Lazarus happily provides builds of FPC with it's
releases that typically are "exactly what you want" for the
platform in questions, which in many cases are *not* also
provided as standalone FPC installer / archive downloads.</div>
<div><br>
For example, to this day there is *still* no natively-64-bit
Windows download for FPC, for absolutely no reason. You
instead either get silently linked to the 32-to-64-bit cross
compiler on Sourceforge, or linked to pages that *explicitly*
provide straight-up misinformation in saying "There is no
native compiler available for x86_64 Win64. You have to use a
cross compiler".</div>
<div><br>
That last quote is absolute BS, to be very frank. There is no
reason whatsoever not to use a natively-64-bit copy of FPC if
running a natively-64-bit copy of Windows, and there hasn't
been for well over half a decade at this point.</div>
<div><br>
I've brought this up on this exact mailing list before, and
was met with attitudes that seemed to suggest people for some
unknown reason think "Linux x64 good and normal, Windows x64
bad, not normal, and unstable!".</div>
<div><br>
Is there a specific person I need to convince that 64-bit
releases on ALL relevant platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, etc) are
in fact incredibly essential? I've got a long, long, long list
of "here's why you're wrong" talking points to provide to
anyone who actually thinks I should be using the 32-to-64-bit
cross compiler on Windows 10 x64.</div>
<div><br>
Lastly, it isn't even like this amounts to more work for
anyone: Lazarus provides a native Win64 build of FPC along
with the native Win64 build of it. I don't understand why that
same build is not also provided as a standalone FPC release.</div>
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Further, the FPC releases for Mac are still listed as being
explicitly "Intel x86/i386" on the download page on the FPC
website, despite the fact that AFAIK the image is for both
32-bit and 64-bit OSX. </div>
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<div>That platform specifically is where it REALLY needs to be
made clear that FPC fully supports 64-bit applications on the
latest version of the OS, considering that 32-bit applications
are actively deprecated as far as Apple is concerned.<br>
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