[ITA] mingw64-x86_64-curl, mingw64-i686-curl

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-08-20 14:20, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 20/08/2020 20:47, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-08-20 12:18, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> Brian Inglis writes:
>>>> Does it matter if I build mingw64 packages under Cygwin 64 or 32 bit: do I have
>>>> to match the package being built, or does it not matter?
>>> FWIW, I build my cross-compiled packages under 64bit always regardless
>>> of the target architecture.  No particular reason for doing it that way,
>>> but it turns out the compiles tend to be slightly faster on 64bit.
>> Thanks Achim,
>>
>> I'll do the same in future as more address space under 64, frees up some in 32,
>>  and reduces packages to update there.
>>
> How does cross compiling for 32-bit Cygwin work? I think it'd be useful
> for me too - in one instance I've found that stripping debug symbols can
> take 3 times as long to run under 32-bit Cygwin.

This is cross-compiling for mingw Cygwin tools used to build Windows-only
executables such as cygcheck, cygserver, cygwin-console-helper, ldh, and strace.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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