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Re: gcc4: next release (Dave Korn we need you)
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Charles Wilson
<cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Well, the 64bit build of w32api provides over 2000 import libraries. The
> 32bit build has only about 225. ?Apparently this is because the .def
> files that each are generated from are maintained separately, vetted on
> each system, and their contents *differ* on each system. Until recently,
> mingw64 focused mainly on 64bit support; 32bit efforts are much younger
> for them.
>
> So while the include/ bits may be the same for mingw64's w32api between
> 32bit and 64bit systems, the lib/ bits definitely differ.
Just to clarify, we've had 32-bit support for a very long time, almost
since the beginning. And, there are far fewer imports because there
are far fewer libs to import by default.