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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?


On 8/7/2011 6:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> What we can do is to ignore this problem.  That would mean, 64 bit
> Cygwin would have a small restriction.  Either you add /lib64 to $PATH
> in the global environment or in a batch file before you start a Cygwin
> process, or you run your Cygwin processes via mintty.
> 
> Is that acceptable?  I'm not sure.

The 64bit version of run and run2 would be problematic -- these apps are
specifically intended to be the "top of a tree"; that is, started from
Windows and not "mintty". And not via a batch file either, since that
would rather defeat their purpose.

$ cygcheck run.exe
Found: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\run.exe
C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\run.exe
  C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll
    C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
      C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll
      C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
  C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll         <<<<<
  C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.DLL
    C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
    C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.dll
      C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll
    C:\Windows\system32\SHLWAPI.dll

$ cygcheck run2.exe
Found: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\run2.exe
C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\run2.exe
  C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll         <<<<<
    C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll
      C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
        C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
        C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll
        C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
  C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygustr-1.dll          <<<<<
  C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygxml2-2.dll          <<<<<
    C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygz.dll             <<<<<
    C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygiconv-2.dll       <<<<<
  C:\Windows\system32\SHELL32.DLL
    C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
    C:\Windows\system32\GDI32.dll
      C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll
    C:\Windows\system32\SHLWAPI.dll

--
Chuck


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