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Re: Running cygwin for AMD 64 platform
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: loan stocker <loanstocker at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 15:05:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: Running cygwin for AMD 64 platform
- References: <20040505190937.13516.qmail@web50206.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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