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

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 17.08.2010 09:54, schrieb 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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> 
> 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.

MS calls it Win64 api, see e.g.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496995.aspx