[fpc-pascal] FPC for Win64

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Sat Jul 4 20:59:00 CEST 2020


Am 04.07.2020 um 20:02 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> On 02/07/2020 9:30 pm, Evert van Dijken via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> I see a WIN32 compiler and a WIN64 cross
>> compiler. How it works is a mystery for me.
> 
> I never understood the choice FPC made to not create a native 64-bit
> compiler, but rather stay with a cross-compiler. *shrug*

The main reason is: a win64 hosted compiler cannot cross compile 
properly to any other x86-64 target due to missing extended support.


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