Testing for 32bit or 64bit Cygwin in Makefile?

Dimitry Andric dimitry@unified-streaming.com
Wed Nov 6 15:30:53 GMT 2024


On 6 Nov 2024, at 16:11, Sebastian Feld via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> How can I test in a /usr/bin/make Makefile whether I am running on a
> 32bit or 64bit Cygwin (not Windows kernel)?

Usually in a shell you use "uname -m", or with bash specifically, the $HOSTTYPE variable.

However in GNU make you should be able to use the internal variable $(MAKE_HOST). On my Cygwin installation, this gives the value "x86_64-pc-cygwin". Since I do not have any 32-bit Cygwin installation, I cannot tell you what the exact value is, but my guess would be "i386-pc-cygwin", or something like that.

-Dimitry



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