Re: building 64 bit packages

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 28 14:05, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 28 March 2013 13:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >
> > right now it's only possible to build a 64 bit package using the native
> > toolchain.  Yaakov is working on a 32 bit cross toolchain, but this
> > may take another couple of days.
> >
> > Anyway, the latest 64 bit Cygwin DLL seems to be stable enough to call
> > it post-alpha or pre-beta or something like that.  So I'd like to invite
> > all of you maintainers to participate in building 64 bit packages,
> > foremost those packages other packages rely upon, like libraries.
> > If you have a 64 bit machine, please try the test release and see if
> > you can build your packages.  For the time being, just download
> > ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/64bit/setup64.exe, install the test distro
> > (what's already existing of it) and do your worst ;)
> 
> Great stuff. Thanks to the kind person who contributed a mintty package.

That's your package ;)  I just added a source package for licensing
reasons.


Corinna

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