Reason for Win64 instead of Win32 [Was: Re: [fpc-pascal] windows 32bit cross to 64 ?]

[Sven Barth]

Am 09.08.2010 22:36, schrieb Jonas Maebe:
>
> On 09 Aug 2010, at 22:32, Martin wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately it doesn't work. I get the following error:
>>   make.exe all  CPU_TARGET=x86_64   FPC=c:\FPC\SVN\ppc386_2_4_0.exe
>>   makefile:199: *** The Makefile doesn't support target x86_64-win32, please run fpcmake first.  Stop.
>
> Add OS_TARGET=win64
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>
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Does anyone know the reason why 64-bit Windows was added as win64 
instead of (x86_64-)win32? With Linux it was done the ${platform}-linux 
way as well.

Regards,
Sven