[Lazarus] Lazarus compilation problems with 2.6.4 RC1

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bart wrote:
> On 2/17/14, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> 
>> The "win32" is the widgetset. The win32 widgetset supports
>> 64bit too.
> I understand, but the naming indeed is unfortunate
> 
>> It should be renamed. Maybe "winapi"?
> 
> win32-64?

By analogy with GTK, Qt etc.: if the API is substantially the same for 
the x86 and x86-64 targets, I think "polluting" the widget set with the 
CPU type would be undesirable.

I've got an SGI Itanium (IA-64) system here, it can generally run x86 
binaries using some form of OS-level emulation, and /if/ I built a 
program for it using Lazarus I'd expect to be able to use the existing 
Windows widgetset rather than having to find an hypothetical one called 
something like win32-Itanic.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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