Re: [PATCH] Update FAQ listing required packages for building Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun 29 15:18, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 29/06/2016 09:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi Jon,
> > 
> > On Jun 28 15:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Jun 28 13:39, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > > docbook2X is now required for building documentation
> > > > libiconv differences between x86_64 and x86 no longer exist
> > > 
> > > Please apply.
> > 
> > Sorry, but that was not quite correct.  Apparently I only skimmed the
> > log text, not the actual patch.  Doh.
> > 
> > When building 32 bit Cygwin, you need the 64 bit Mingw compiler for
> > cyglsa64.dll.  The reason is that 32 bit cyglsa.dll won't work on 64 bit
> > systems, even if Cygwin itself is running under WOW64.  Since we don't
> > know if the user runs Cygwin on 32 bit or under WOW64, we have to create
> > *both* cyglsa DLLs for 32 bit Cygwin, while it's obviously sufficient to
> > build only the 64 bit version for 64 bit Cygwin.
> 
> Yes, I somehow though it said mingw64-i686-gcc-core rather than
> mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core.
> 
> How about the attached?

Should be fine, given that cyglsa is plain C.  Please go ahead.


Thanks,
Corinna

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