[fpc-devel] Win64 FPC is in wrong download location
Vincent Snijders
vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl
Tue May 4 07:40:48 CEST 2010
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.
Vincent
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