[fpc-devel] I've asked this before, but perhaps I wasn't specific enough that time: what do I *personally*, specifically need to do to ensure that a native Windows 64-bit build winds up on the FPC website for the next release?

Marco van de Voort fpc at pascalprogramming.org
Wed Jan 12 11:51:01 CET 2022


On 12-1-2022 11:38, Ben Grasset via fpc-devel wrote:
> If it's actually now somehow the case that an offer to provide Win64 
> builds would be refused though, I guess maybe I'll look into hosting 
> them myself somewhere else? Although again I don't get why it would be 
> fine for Linux to have a zillion archives for different configurations 
> here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/3.2.2/


As said, Windows 64-bit is a special case because it doesn't 
support/recommend extended. This makes cross compiling to targets that 
do difficult till we have softfloat support.



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