Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Óscar Fuentes]

Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.
>
> Thanks for clarifying. However given that the build system needs the
> POSIX tools, the end result is similar.

Not from the point of view of the packager or anyone who has a 64 bit
machine. MSYS2 builds 32 bit executables with the same effort as the 64
bit ones, it only depends on which shorcut you use to start the shell or
the contents of an environment variable. Then you just install the
resulting package on the target machine.