On Wed, May 1, 2013 11:30, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Am 30.04.2013 20:39, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: >> Hi, >> >> I just tried to update one of my Windows VM with the latest released >> FPC. To my surprise there is no Win64 release for FPC 2.6.2 on >> SourceForge? I only found a 32-bit cross-compiler. >> >> Why is this? > > Because it has no advantage over the 32 bit cross compiler. FPC never > hits the 2 or 3 GB limit, a 64 bit compiler executable is slower, 32 bit > executables run perfectly on 64 bit windows. So we can just provide two > installers: a basic one targetting 32 bit win and an additional one for > people needing 64 bit development, all regardless of their host system.
This sounds like a good candidate for a new FAQ item (I couldn't find an existing one by searching for Win64, but I may have missed something on the currently used 3 inch display, of course)... Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
