Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Óscar Fuentes]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

>> Because it was unreasonable to expect you to keep supporting it when
>> MSYS2 folks dropped it.  And since MinGW64 dropped support of old
>> Windows versions, which are the main audience for the 32-bit build,
>> such a MinGW64 build is no longer useful anyway.
>
> Agreed: when I wrote the above, I was unaware that the MSYS2 developers
> had dropped 32bit support.

Just to clarify: MSYS2 dropped 32bit support for the POSIX packages,
because Cygwin (which is its upstream project) did so. But MSYS2 still
builds and distributes MinGW-w64 32 bit packages, and AFAIK the plan is
to keep doing that for the foreseeable future.