[fpc-devel] Win64 FPC is in wrong download location

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Tue May 4 09:20:04 CEST 2010


Vincent Snijders schrieb:
> Henry Vermaak schreef:
>> On 3 May 2010 23:49, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Going to SourceForge to download the Win64 version of FPC, you have to
>>> navigate into the Win32 folder?! Surely it would make more sense to
>>> rename Win32 to Windows (so it can contain both 32 & 64-bit versions),
>>> or create a new Win64 folder for 64-bit versions.
>>
>> Perhaps the win32 refers to the version of the Windows API?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API#Versions
> 
> No, it refers to the host system. The win64 compiler of FPC supplied by
> the fpc team is a cross compiler from win32 to win64.

Even more: the win64 package is an add on to the win32 installer.



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