On 17/02/2014 17:35, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Bart wrote: >> On 2/17/14, Mattias Gaertner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The "win32" is the widgetset. The win32 widgetset supports >>> 64bit too. >> I understand, but the naming indeed is unfortunate >> >>> It should be renamed. Maybe "winapi"? >> >> win32-64? > > By analogy with GTK, Qt etc.: if the API is substantially the same for > the x86 and x86-64 targets, I think "polluting" the widget set with the > CPU type would be undesirable. > > I've got an SGI Itanium (IA-64) system here, it can generally run x86 > binaries using some form of OS-level emulation, and /if/ I built a > program for it using Lazarus I'd expect to be able to use the existing > Windows widgetset rather than having to find an hypothetical one called > something like win32-Itanic. >
Agreed. Winapi sounds good. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
