Hi, the last nightly for Windows 32 bit builds for Kodi 19 was from 10 April and the the last nightly for Windows 32 bit builds for Kodi 18 was from 17 April, is there is a problem with building Kodi for Windows 32 bit or just Kodi dropped supporting the 32 bit builds for Windows?
Most of the developers, a team of volunteers, have to balance maintainability and the time it takes to add new features in the future, there has already been an
announcement of the iOS 32-bit and will no longer be supported from Kodi 19 on-wards. At this moment most of the developers are working with 64 bit hardware and os which leaves some of the work on 32 windows somewhat lagging, at this point there is no official announcement and the question continues to circle in the developer chats. ATM Kodi 18.6 is the stable release and supported on all fronts, nightlies and alpha iterations are considered exploratory software.
Personally I suggest if you are running 32 bit hardware, that you put forth
your arguments to maintain development in a manner that speaks to volumes of other users in the same boat.
Microsoft is changing the minimum hardware requirements,
Microsoft will no longer release 32-bit builds for Windows 10 OEM distribution. Anyone with a 32-bit PC should be fine for as long as their devices remain usable. Beginning with Windows 10, version 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 64-bit builds and Microsoft will no longer release 32-bit builds for OEM distribution.
I'd be suprised if anyone running Kodi had 32bit only hardware as all Intel/AMD CPU's have supported the x64 instruction set for the last 10 years, more likely people are just running the 32 bit Windows versions as it's what they are familiar with.