Running cygwin for AMD 64 platform
Brian Ford
ford@vss.fsi.com
Wed May 5 20:05:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, 5 May 2004, loan stocker wrote:
> I was trying to get cygwin running for AMD 64
> platform. But bombs on me after " fork error " . I
> have read from the grapevine that there are patches
> for this which require me download the source and
> compile it. But I dont know how to compile cygwin
> sources if I dont have cygwin running in the first
> place.
Cross compile, compile on another machine that Cygwin does work on, etc.
> If anybody has done this, can you please give me step
> by step breakdown of this can be done?
> thanks
Unless you plan on hacking those sources yourself to make it work (AFAIK,
the patches you describe alone do not), I'd suggest you just sit back and
wait on:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00321.html
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Brian Ford
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VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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