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Re: building 64 bit packages
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:56:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: building 64 bit packages
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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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