Technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on 64bit Windows?

[Roland Mainz]

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Is there a technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on
> 64bit Windows? We like to create a CI build pipeline, and want to
> create binaries for 32bit and 64bit Cygwin on the same machine, but
> setup.exe for 32bir Cygwin refuses to install

Maybe the Cygwin 32bit setup wants to make sure only people who read
the instructions can use it ? :-)

This should work from an Admin cmd.exe console.
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# Install Cygwin 32bit on Windows 10 32bit with packages required by
"ms-nfs41-client" (Windows NFSv4.1 client)
# get installer from https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe
setup-x86.exe --allow-unsupported-windows -q --no-verify --site
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457
cygwin,cygwin-devel,cygrunsrv,cygutils,cygutils-extra,bash,bzip2,coreutils,getent,gdb,grep,hostname,less,libiconv,libiconv2,pax,pbzip2,procps-ng,sed,tar,time,util-linux,wget,libnfs,make,git,dos2unix
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Bye,
Roland

P.S.: Offtopic, just noting it here because I wasted a lot of time:
Windows 10/32bit (Win10_22H2_German_x32v1.iso) on VMware Workstation
17.5 crashes randomly on first *update* after installation if you use
the VMware NVME driver, only SATA etc. works
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