[Development] Stop delivering 32 bit MinGW binaries from 5.12 ->

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Jan 2 11:39:08 CET 2018


On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 06:30:55 -02 André Hartmann wrote:
> > I personally use MSVC2017 together with MSVC2015 32 bit binaries for the
> > published product. But I regularly use MinGW for daily development.
> > Other people might prefer MinGW over MSVC for published products though.
> > So 32 bit software projects are still very common on Windows platforms.
> 
> And not to forget, 32 bit Windows programs run without problems on 64
> bit Windows systems; the opposite is not true.

True, but how many people install Windows 7+ 32-bit these days?

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