RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

[Charles Wilson]

On 8/7/2011 7:52 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 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.

Ditto startxwin:

Found: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\startxwin.exe
C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\startxwin.exe
  C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygX11-6.dll                <<<<<
    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\cygxcb-1.dll              <<<<<
      C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygXau-6.dll            <<<<<
      C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll          <<<<<

And here, we don't even have the option of supplying the exe as a
statically linked binary, because the X libs are DLL-only.

--
Chuck