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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
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Chuck