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

[Cedric Blancher]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 19:11, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> 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 32bit, as Cygwin 3.3 is bit outdated.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%.

I'd wholeheartedly object to that statistics.
In Paris alone we have the Programming Education CD in almost every
school, which is for the Windows 8+Windows 10 32bit machines to
install a Cygwin-based app to teach pupils programming in Pascal and
C.
That are around 11000 installations alone, and scaled up to France a lot more.
Last edition was made in 2022, with 14000 CDs (one CD --> multiple
installations) shipped until mid-2024.

Bummer is, most of these school PCs are 32bit only, and they are not
being replaced before 2028-2032, but the programming environment needs
to be updated or replaced before 2025.

So YES, there is a market for 32bit Cygwin!!

Ced
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