> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 23:42:52 -0800 > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> > > On 12/23/22 22:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > We do this only for mingw.org's MinGW, not for MinGW64 (where we don't > > change the default value). > > Oh. How about if we do it for MinGW64 too? Wouldn't that support 64-bit > Emacs builds on obsolete MS-Windows platforms? Not being an MS-Windows > expert I'm hesitant to propose an exact patch, but the general idea > should work.
It's AFAIK meaningless to do that for MinGW64, since they dropped support of all versions of Windows older than 8, and I hear they will drop Windows 8 as well soon (or already did?). > Another option would be to say that if you want to run Emacs on > MS-Windows no longer supported by Microsoft, you need to do a 32-bit build. That is indeed the best alternative, since it is being constantly tested (by yours truly).
