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Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)
- From: Frédéric Bron <frederic dot bron at m4x dot org>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:53:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)
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>>Is it possible to build setup64.exe from a 32bit cygwin?
>
> As previously mentioned, despite the subject, there is no such thing as
> setup64.exe. The makefile creates setup.exe. The filename gets changed
> when it gets uploaded to cygwin.com to either setup-x86.exe or
> setup-x86_64.exe.
do you mean I can only build the 32bit version on i686 bits and the
64bit version on x86_64 and in both case the binary is called
setup.exe after running make?
This means I cannot build the x86_64 version from a i686 cygwin. Is
that correct?
Frédéric
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