RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

Earnie earnie@users.sourceforge.net
Sat Jul 9 16:28:00 GMT 2011


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> So, how did it happen that /lib64 is prepended to
> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, but all other libs are just plain filenames?
> Maybe that gives us some clue how to do it in Cygwin.

I wonder what the header information in /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 has
in itself?  Is ld picking the library name from the library file and
just inserting it into the executable?

Earnie



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