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

[Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

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?

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