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Re: building 64 bit packages


On Mar 28 20:51, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 28 March 2013 14:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 28 15:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > To be more clear, I simply took the mintty binary you provided a couple
> > of days ago and tar'ed it up.  It's not *really* a serious mintty binary
> > package.
> 
> I've now uploaded a cygport-built mintty 1.2-beta1-1 package.
> 
> (I've also run ./GEN-sware in
> /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin/64bit. This threw a bunch of errors
> such as "not enough package files in 64bit/release/gcc", but the
> resulting setup.ini looks ok, so I guess those errors are expected?)

Yes, they are.  Thanks for the new mintty package!


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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