Re: XP x64 steps?

[Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> It should work OOTB, at least it did for me.  Just don't interfere while 
> it's doing its job.  Afterwards, simply copy the latest snapshot DLL 
> over the original one and you should be all set.  Maybe you should 
> remove all traces of Cygwin from your disk and start over.

Well, I had to do this many times trying different things and it took a 
big chunk out of my weekend, but I'm happy to say that there is a simple 
answer.

I couldn't get it to work for a long time because I was trying to install 
all packages at once.  For XP x64, one must start with the default 
installation, then copy the new cygwin1.dll file to c:\cygwin\bin 
(replacing the old copy), then go back and do a full installation of other 
components.  If you try to do the whole thing, it will fail.

For people who don't have unix machines to use for bunzipping, I would 
recommend using this program...

http://www.7-zip.org/

...for unzipping this file:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20050819.dll.bz2

Then rename the unzipped dll to cygwin1.dll and copy as I suggested above.

I know most of you people know how to do all these kinds of things but I'm 
afraid that others surfing for help will not know what to do without these 
kinds of details.

Thanks for your help with this.  I hope the new cygwin1.dll can make it 
into the standard release pretty soon.  I'm sure that more and more people 
will be trying to use Cygwin on XP x64 and many of them will suffer 
through a lot of hassles getting Cygwin running.

Mike

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Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/

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