On 5/6/2013 11:40 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
If I run 64-bit Mac or 64-bit Windows or 64-bit Linux, I want 64-bit applications. Some OS's allow for easier execution of 32-bit apps, but definitely not all. All my systems run 64-bit OS's, and all my installed libraries etc are 64-bit too (think Firebird, etc). 32-bit executables cannot load 64-bit libraries, so I need 64-bit executables. To put it simply, that is the reason I (and many others) need a 64-bit FPC. I've had lots of bad experiences with FPC cross-compilers . . .
I have not had bad experience with cross-compilers, as far as the compilers not working as of yet. However, let me state for the record, that a vast majority of the compiling that I will be doing will be exclusively for 64-bit systems, and I simply do not want to be forced to compile a 32-bit program on Windows, then cross-compile it into a 64-bit program. That is just ludicrous. I want to direct compile a native 64-bit applications, period. Even when I use Lazarus, it's just used to build forms. I have another IDE that I much prefer for the actual coding and compiling work.
As a developer, and as a father of 2 young children, I don't have time to have to compile my own compilers and get everything fixed. I want to download FPC_x86_64 for Windows and just get to work with it so that I have more time with my children.
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