Windows 32 and 64 bit

[Stephen Goodall]

Could you do a 32-bit "freeze", so it still works but you don't need to
worry about building it in future?
Or maybe just do builds for major milestones so it's less often for you?


On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 9:57 am Dirk Hohndel via subsurface, <
subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:

> I'm considering moving our default Windows build to 64bit - it's 2020
> after all.
> Some studying of the information I can get from the people who have
> enabled the update
> notifications tells me that we still have at least 50 users running
> Windows on actual 32bit
> hardware - so below 1% of our Windows user base (but the number could be
> higher if a
> lot of 32bit Windows users have disabled the update check).
>
> Either way, I think that's too many to completely drop having a 32bit
> binary, but it certainly
> seems to make it reasonable to switch to 64bit by default.
>
> One thing that is triggering this is that I am having problems getting a
> working libmtp
> build on a 32bit MXE build. It's entirely possible that that's simply my
> own fault, but
> oddly the moment I tried a 64bit build it worked...
> Of course we only need libmtp (so far) for the brand new Garmin Descent
> Mk2/Mk2i,
> and the likely overlap between people with a $1200+ brand new dive
> computer and
> a 32bit Windows machine is... small.
>
> Curious to hear people's thoughts.
>
> /D
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