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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:17:56PM -0400, NightStrike wrote:
>On 3/13/08, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> wrote:
>> NightStrike wrote on 13 March 2008 19:20:
>>
>> > Is cygwin for Win64 native 64-bit, or does it run in the WoW
>> > compatibility layer?
>>
>>  The latter.  There's no such thing as "cygwin for Win64"; the dll itself,
>> and all the packages, exist only in bog standard 32-bit ix86 versions.
>
>Now that there's a more or less working compiler for Win64, what's
>required to get at the very least the cygwin dll to compile?
>
>A very quick attempt with the current compiler yields this:
>
>cc -L/home/nightstrike/cyg/build/x86_64-pc-mingw32/winsup/mingw
>-L/home/nightstrike/cyg/build/x86_64-pc-mingw32/winsup/w32api/lib
>-isystem /home/nightstrike/cyg/cygwin-snapshot-20080318-1/winsup/mingw/include
>-isystem /home/nightstrike/cyg/cygwin-snapshot-20080318-1/winsup/w32api/include
>-c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2   -I.
>-I../../../cygwin-snapshot-20080318-1/libiberty/../include  -W -Wall
>-Wwrite-strings -Wc++-compat -Wstrict-prototypes -pedantic
>../../../cygwin-snapshot-20080318-1/libiberty/regex.c -o regex.o
>In file included from ../../../cygwin-snapshot-20080318-1/libiberty/regex.c:196:
>/home/nightstrike/cyg/cygwin-snapshot-20080318-1/winsup/mingw/include/ctype.h:
>In function 'isalnum':
>/home/nightstrike/cyg/cygwin-snapshot-20080318-1/winsup/mingw/include/ctype.h:154:
>error: '_imp____mb_cur_max_dll' undeclared (first use in this
>function)

What are you asking?  Are you asking if making a true 64-bit version of
cygwin1.dll just requires building the dll with a 64-bit compiler?  If
so, then the answer is that it is not that simple.  There is quite a bit
more work involved than just recompiling.  32-bit assumptions would have
to be rethought throughout the cygwin and newlib sources.

It is not a small job.

cgf

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