64bit only on Windows?

0xEAB desisma at heidel.beer
Fri Feb 25 14:12:50 UTC 2022


On Thursday, 3 February 2022 at 01:42:54 UTC, forkit wrote:
> In trying to get my head around the build process on Windows, I 
> find myself asking 'what is the rationale for continuing to 
> maintain 32bit on Windows'.

Everything works out of the box there.

(Probably thanks to the DigitalMars C runtime) apps compiled for 
32bit OMF will just launch on another Windows box without having 
to deal with any runtime stuff (ie no need to install some Visual 
C++ Redistributable in advance)…

- Elias


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