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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
On Aug 7 07:55, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 8/7/2011 7:52 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> > The 64bit version of run and run2 would be problematic -- these apps are
> > specifically intended to be the "top of a tree"; that is, started from
> > Windows and not "mintty". And not via a batch file either, since that
> > would rather defeat their purpose.
>
> Ditto startxwin:
>
> Found: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\startxwin.exe
> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\startxwin.exe
> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygX11-6.dll <<<<<
> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll <<<<<
> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll
> C:\Windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
> C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll
> C:\Windows\system32\KERNEL32.dll
> C:\Windows\system32\RPCRT4.dll
> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygxcb-1.dll <<<<<
> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygXau-6.dll <<<<<
> C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll <<<<<
>
> And here, we don't even have the option of supplying the exe as a
> statically linked binary, because the X libs are DLL-only.
Dynamic linking could fix that problem. Except for cyggcc_s-1.dll,
but apparently the depencies to cyggcc_s-1.dll will be much reduced
with a newer GCC.
Corinna
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