Win32 API in pywin32

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> To be fair my head spins in Linux-land trying to work out what all these
> 32's and 64's mean: mingw-w64-x86-64

There aren't any 32s in that. The beginning of that probably means the
Win64 version of MinGW, which (IIRC) is distinctly different from the
Win32 version (a project fork, or something); the end of it is the
architecture, x86-64, meaning "Intel 64-bit". Sometimes that's
described as AMD64, to distinguish it from IA-64, the Intel Itanium
64-bit architecture. The "86" in the name derives from 8086 and
family.

ChrisA