Technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on 64bit Windows?

[Eliot Moss]

On 5/17/2024 11:21 AM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, 17 May 2024 at 16:50, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2024-05-17 01:48, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Is there a technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on
>>> 64bit Windows? We like to create a CI build pipeline, and want to
>>> create binaries for 32bit and 64bit Cygwin on the same machine, but
>>> setup.exe for 32bir Cygwin refuses to install
>>
>> Practical reason is 32 bit usage < 1%
> 
> I would agree for commercial, well-funded enterprises. The situation
> is much different for funding-starved education, i.e. schools and
> universities, where Win10 32bit is squatting cheap computers in the
> *millions*. For example the schools in Paris alone have 22000 active
> Win10 32bit licenses in 2022 (last time this was counted).
> 
>> and Cygwin is all volunteer, with
>> professionally and/or personally busy developers lacking time to do more.
>> You are on your own with 32 bit dropped,
> 
> Does Cygwin 3.6 still compile on 32bit?

AFAIK, yes, though most folks don't compile it themselves.
I just download things.

>> so ask questions on forums like SO.
> 
> What is SO?

StackOverflow.

Cheers - Eliot Moss