[Interest] Help a unix guy on windows qmake

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 21 April 2021 09:54:09 PDT Jason H wrote:
> MinGW is not x64? It's running on a fairly recent windows 10 machine.

"mingw32" means "Minimal GNU for Win32" and Win32 is the name of the API set. 
It's historical and applies to 64-bit too. That's why the mkspecs for windows 
are win32-msvc, win32-mingw, win32-icc and the MinGW 64-bit compiler is called 
"x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe"

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