Windows 2019 support?

Bill Stewart bstewart@iname.com
Mon Sep 21 14:49:55 GMT 2020


On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 1:37 AM Thomas Wolff wrote:

> > Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows, from
> > Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server 2008 and all later versions of
> > Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations. The 32 bit version of
> > Cygwin also runs in the WOW64 32 bit environment on released 64 bit versions of
> > Windows including ARM PCs, the 64 bit version of course only on 64 bit AMD/Intel
> > compatible PCs."
>
> You'd mention WOW64 but not Windows 32 bit. Is that on purpose? It might
> suggest to someone that cygwin does not run on a 32 bit processor but it
> does.

If WOW64 is supported, then IMO it's implied that the 32-bit version
works on 32-bit Windows. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to state it
explicitly, though.

Bill


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