[Lazarus] Lazarus compilation problems with 2.6.4 RC1

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 18:07:02 CET 2014


On 17/02/2014 17:35, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 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.
> 

Agreed. Winapi sounds good.




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