Native ARM support for Cygwin

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 14:58:04 GMT 2021


On 10.12.2021 15:18, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 08/12/2021 11:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Dec  8 02:07, Aaron Franke via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Hello Cygwin,
>>> I am wondering what are the plans for adding support for native ARM64
>>> Windows to Cygwin.
>>> Currently there are only downloads for x86 (both 32-bit and 64-bit),
>>> but not for ARM.
>>> I do see in the FAQ that there is a mention of how ARM systems can run
>>> the x86 version of Cygwin, however I am interested in a native ARM64
> 
> That FAQ is out of date, since with a sufficiently recent Windows 
> (Windows 11, I think), ARM also has x86_64 emulation (which should be 
> preferred).
> 

I expect a crawling speed when running Cygwin in a ARM x86_64
emulation mode


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