Maintainers please weigh in on 64-bit Cygwin

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:43:52 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
> My working assumption is that the differences between the two
> architectures can nearly be absorbed by cygport so that a single
> definition can be used to produce both packages.  I also hope that it
> will be possible in the future to cross-compile between 32bit and 64bit,
> either direction is fine, but compiling on 32bit may be more practical
> at the moment.

That is definitely the goal, although obviously some changes to
existing .cygport's and patchsets may be required.  A 32-to-64
toolchain will be ready very soon; the reverse is a lower priority at
the moment.


Yaakov