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

[Cedric Blancher]

On Sat, 18 May 2024 at 13:22, Roland Mainz via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> ---- snip ----
> # 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
> ---- snip ----

That does only install the default packages for me, but not wget or
cygrunserv. Is there a setup-x86.exe option just to add packages to an
existing installation?

Ced
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