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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

On further review of the msys2 news page that states:

/quote
2020-05-17 - 32-bit MSYS2 no longer actively supported
32-bit mingw-w64 packages are still supported, this is about the POSIX
emulation layer, i.e. the runtime, Bash, MinTTY...

After this date, we don't plan on building updated msys-i686 packages nor
releasing i686 installers anymore. This is due to increasingly frustrating
difficulties with limited 32-bit address space, high penetration of 64-bit
systems and Cygwin (our upstream) starting their way to drop 32-bit support
as well.
/quote

It does mention that it is just the environment that is 64 bit only, but
not the mingw toolchains, so I don't really think this affects us.

Nick

On Wed, 5 Aug 2020 at 01:10, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 8/4/20 4:43 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 4:41 AM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 8/3/20 9:19 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 10:48 AM Wayne Stambaugh
> >     <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>>
> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     I'm not ready to drop 32 bit builds for V6.  I still think
> >     there are
> >     >     enough 32-bit users to warrant supporting it for one more
> >     release.  It's
> >     >     something we can discuss for V7.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > If we keep 32 bit builds on mingw2, does that mean that we freeze
> all
> >     > packages at their current versions?  It might be problematic to
> keep
> >     > different package versions for different architectures.
> >
> >     I'm assuming you mean dependency packages so yes we would continue to
> >     build 32 bit windows versions using the current package versions.  If
> >     someone figures out how to get wxPhoenix to build, then we could
> bump to
> >     wxWidgets 3.1.x and Python 3.x.
> >
> >
> > Do you envision building 32-bit and 64-bit with different package
> versions?
>
> I hope not but we may have to bite the bullet if we can't get all of the
> packaging up to snuff be it msys2 or msvc builds.
>
> >
> > -Seth
> >
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