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Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)
- From: Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 19:19:23 -0700
- Subject: Re: having 1 set of non-bin files w/separate {bin,lib}[32/64)? (was Re: please update the supported Cygwin package list ...)
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Hello Linda,
It seems to be the only reliable 32-bit redirection -- and MS chose to put
it in the /windows dir... so they must want customers to put anything
needing
that feature in that dir...right?? ;-) Oi...
Absolutely not what MS intended for the /windows directory. That is
the OS directory and only MS installations should use it.
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Sorry, I assume you did catch the irony.
The /"Program Files" (64bit) and /"Program Files (x86)" (32bit)
directories are where MS directs developers to put their binaries.
However we don't like spaces in path names so this isn't a good
location.
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Which is why you create /prog->one /prog{32,64}->point to the other
as mklink /d symlinks in the root of the fs.
However you the user have a choice of where to put things. Frankly, I
would use /cygwin and /cygwin32
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And how does that get you the autoredirection I suggested with
the links in Windows/syswow64 and windows/system32?
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