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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

>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.

It does,* just not right now. *The writing is on the wall for 32-bit x86.
Microsoft officially has marked 32-bit Windows 10 EOL and I believe it's
being dropped by Microsoft towards the end of next year (no more security
updates).
It would be crazy for MSYS2 not to eventually drop the packages themselves
as well.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 6:13 PM Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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