Graeme Geldenhuys wrote on Thu, 07 Apr 2016:
I wanted to upgrade my VM to FPC 3.0.0, but I don't seem to find an official Win64 release like prior versions. All I can find as a what I assume is a 32-bit cross-complier to win64: fpc-3.0.0.i386-win32.cross.x86_64-win64.exe Why did FPC stop making official native win64 compilers? Or is this just a naming convension change?
It's a naming change: the previous Win64 releases were also cross-compilers. There is no advantage I'm a aware of to having a "native" Win64 release compiler, and there are disadvantages such as the inability to compile for any other x86-64 target (because the x87 fpu is deprecated for 64 bit on Windows).
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