Windows x64 binary?

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Is it possible to get you to release one instead of my having to try to 
download it, setup a build environment and compile it myself (since you are 
already releasing x64 binaries for Mac and Linux)?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rhydonj@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2012 at 9:47

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Original comment by s...@narfation.org on 4 Apr 2012 at 9:39

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We do not have any plans to make or release 64-bit windows builds.  There is a 
technical reason: Microsoft made a design decision for backwards compatibility 
when moving to 64-bits which would effectively force us to make large changes 
to all of the source code to support Win64.  And there is also a practical 
reason: the 32-bit build is slightly faster than the 64-bit one, so having a 
64-bit build on windows would not bring any advantage.  Since all 64-bit 
Windows OSes have 32-bit compatibility libraries, the 32-bit application is 
usable on all Win64 installations.  However this is not true in the Linux 
world, which is the main reason why I created a 64-bit version of Mupen64Plus.

Original comment by richard...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2012 at 11:01

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Well, thank you for taking the time to explain the reasoning.  That all makes 
sense.

Original comment by rhydonj@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2012 at 11:49

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