Re: Support for MS-Windows build of Emacs (was: Warnings during building the current master on Win10 with MSYS2/MinGW64)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 19:02:54 -0500
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Why is it not available here? (Or maybe I can't see it):
> > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-29/
> 
> I make the binaries for Windows currently which you find at the above
> link.  I don't currently publish any x32 bit versions because I'm
> having cross-compile thiem on an x64 machine and I don't have a x32
> bit machine running Windows that I could use to test them.  I'm
> willing to do it; however, so far I have not had many requests.  (I
> think you might be the first person to mention absence of x32 builds
> for Windows since we stopped making them a year or three ago.)

Let me remind you that we discussed this at some point and decided
that since everyone uses a 64-bit system nowadays, offering just the
64-bit build should be enough.

There's no advantage to a 32-bit build produced using MinGW64 over a
64-bit build produced by the same toolchain, only disadvantages.

So I don't think it is worth your time and efforts to produce also a
32-bit build.