Vista 64 users, please test snapshot

Ben ben.alkov@gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 02:07:00 GMT 2006


Bravo! Working beautifully here. I haven't exactly tested everything,
but at least I can run commands from bash without error.

b

P.S. Had to re-run setup to allow post-install scripts to run. Just
make sure not to reinstall the cygwin dll package.

Corinna wrote:
> I've applied a patch to Cygwin which should workaround what
> appears to be a compatibility bug in WOW64 on Vista 64.
> If you want details, see the huge comment in the sources,
> file dcrt0.cc, get_cygwin_startup_info().
>
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM
>
> Please try the latest snapshot DLL from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> Note that this snapshot will show weird directory related behaviour
> when trying to run tclsh, gdb -w resp. insight, or strace.  This is
> the result of another change and has nothing to do with Vista 64.
>
> Corinna
>

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