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RE: Native 64 bit.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Moss > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 14:50
> To: Jason Pyeron
> Subject: Re: Native 64 bit.
> 
> On 5/26/2010 1:13 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > First off, I do not know if we will ever finish this 
> attempt, but we 
> > will start and try.
> >
> > We would like to compile cygwin for 64 bit native operation. Our 
> > office is switching to all 64 bit systems.
> 
> Jason -- Could you clarify? I run Windows 7 64-bit and cygwin 
> goes fine.  Of course cygwin and all the ported Unix programs 
> that run under it live in a 32-bit universe, but that's fine, 
> and I can invoke native 32-bit Windows apps (like Eclipse, 
> say) just fine.
> What is it you feel you need?

Memory access.

Linking in other 64 bit dlls.

> 
> Best wishes -- Eliot Moss
> 



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