[fpc-pascal] FPC releases for Win64 - 2.6.2 & 2.6.4 versus 3.0.0

[Jonas Maebe]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote on Thu, 07 Apr 2016:

> I wanted to upgrade my VM to FPC 3.0.0, but I don't seem to find an
> official Win64 release like prior versions. All I can find as a what I
> assume is a 32-bit cross-complier to win64:
>
>    fpc-3.0.0.i386-win32.cross.x86_64-win64.exe
>
> Why did FPC stop making official native win64 compilers?  Or is this
> just a naming convension change?

It's a naming change: the previous Win64 releases were also  
cross-compilers. There is no advantage I'm a aware of to having a  
"native" Win64 release compiler, and there are disadvantages such as  
the inability to compile for any other x86-64 target (because the x87  
fpu is deprecated for 64 bit on Windows).


Jonas