Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

[Daniel Colascione <dan dot colascione at gmail dot com>]

On 6/27/2011 6:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 17:58 -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> Today, Cygwin DLLs all have the form cyg$SONAME.dll. In a 64-bit Cygwin,
>> 32-bit DLLs would retain this naming convention and 64-bit DLLs would be
>> named cyg64$SONAME.dll.
> 
> 1) A similar naming scheme for mingw64 was already rejected.
> 2) Accomodating the "cyg" prefix is hard enough; using different naming
> schemes for x86 and x64 would be a disaster.

How so? The logic for the dealing with the prefix already exists.
Wouldn't it be a relatively simple matter to make the string used for
the prefix vary based on the current architecture, especially if both
variants begin with "cyg"?

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