Cygwin 3.6 x86/32bit builds for Windows 10/ARM64 x86 emulation?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-10-01 05:25, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 7:20 PM Jeremy Drake <cygwin@jdrake.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 12:49 PM Mark Liam Brown
>>> <brownmarkliam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Greetings!
>>>>
>>>> Are there Cygwin 3.6 x86/32bit builds?
>>>> We're on Windows 10/ARM64, and as Cygwin does not support ARM64 yet
>>>> the only other option is to use the x86 (32bit) emulation to run
>>>> Cygwin 3.6 32bit. Windows 11 also has x86-64 emulation, but we are
>>>> stuck with Windows 10.
>>>
>>> Anyone? We've hit the problem again that we would need Cygwin 3.5
>>> 32bit, as Cygwin 3.3 is bit outdated.
>>> Mark
>>
>> There can be no such build, support code for 32bit was ripped out before
>> Cygwin 3.4 was released.
> 
> WHY?! WHY?! ;-(((((((((((
> You know how many Windows 32bit machines are out there?

As far as anyone can tell externally << 1%.
Only a tiny percentage of those using Cygwin, and only a tiny percentage, if 
any, maintainers or developers using systems like that.
Too few to support software for, except with an expensive contract to pay for 
sufficient staff, hardware, and time for the effort! ;^>

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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