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Re: building 64 bit packages


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?)

Andy


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