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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Before I fix this, I think it is worth asking whether I still need
>> to produce a i686 binary.
>
> I cannot tell you what to do, but it would be nice to have binaries
> that can be run on older Windows versions.  So if the build supports
> XP and older Windows, keeping the 32-bit build would be an advantage.

MSYS2 MinGW-w64 binaries do not support XP, they officially decided this
some years ago and now some runtime dlls use APIs not present on XP.