Reenable windows-i586

Hi, thanks for your work on this library!

Is it possible to add the windows-i586 binaries back to the later builds? Windows 10 still comes in a 32-bit version and will reach its end of life on October 14, 2025.

What is the best way to sponsor this project?

Thanks,
Joacim Breiler

Hello

You can contact Sven for commercial support:
https://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php/Maintainer_and_Contacts#Sven_Gothel

In my humble opinion, it's the good option for what you ask.

I had a little chat with Joacim, who also uses JogAmp for his open source project.

This + a few other request lead me to be consider re-adding windows-i586 with our next 2.6.0 build
IF the mingw64 toolchain can still be used (it should, I was been told).

However, I probably am not able to test it.
Hence we would depend on the users to test the release candidate.

I have no such machines :(

We removed the i586 build from jaamsim two releases ago when we finally upgraded our jogl version and usually have a few hundred downloads per week. We've only had one inquiry about the missing build in that time, and they were ok to just download a 64 bit JVM and upgrade their environment, nobody seems to be stuck on a 32-bit windows machine at least in our userbase.

Should a i586 version of jogl become available again, I'm not sure we would include it our not at this point.

Just my $0.02

Cheers,

Harvey