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Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
- From: Shaddy Baddah <lithium-cygwin at shaddybaddah dot name>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:35:13 +1100
- Subject: Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
- References: <515BC9DE dot 8040607 at shaddybaddah dot name> <20130403102038 dot GA4243 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
Hi,
On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
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Based on my limited understanding of .exe.manifest files, I believe the
problem should be related to this change to Cygwin setup:
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/setup.exe.manifest?rev=2.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=cygwin-apps
with changelog excerpt:
* setup.exe.manifest: Set processorArchitecture to "*".
Add explicit requestedExecutionLevel for 64-bit compatibility.
Am I correct?
Probably yes. Yaakov, why is that necessary for 64 bit? Is that
documented somewhere?
I tried working around this by writing an in-place
cygpkg64.exe.manifest with <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker"
uiAccess="false"/>, not really expecting it to work. And of course it
has not.
Is it possible to cross-build setup64.exe from 32 bit Cygwin? Is there
much mucking about to achieve it?
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Regards,
Shaddy