On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Charles Wilson <cyg...@cwilson.fastmail.fm> wrote: > Well, the 64bit build of w32api provides over 2000 import libraries. The > 32bit build has only about 225. Apparently this is because the .def > files that each are generated from are maintained separately, vetted on > each system, and their contents *differ* on each system. Until recently, > mingw64 focused mainly on 64bit support; 32bit efforts are much younger > for them. > > So while the include/ bits may be the same for mingw64's w32api between > 32bit and 64bit systems, the lib/ bits definitely differ.
Just to clarify, we've had 32-bit support for a very long time, almost since the beginning. And, there are far fewer imports because there are far fewer libs to import by default.
