Status of Cygwin on Windows/ARM64?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-09-08 07:45, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 10:50 AM Arthur Norman <acn1@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I have been VERY happily pleased about how well Cygwin runs using
>> Prism on Windows/ARM64. I can build and test my x86_64 code there using it
>> despite the underlying CPU being an ARM. My genuine Windows/x86_64 machine
>> is not that new these days. Using a stack Macbook-m1/UTM/Windows11-ARM64
>> runs the proggrams in build using cygwin on that Windows as x86_64 code via
>> Prism and is quite close in speed to that which I observe on my "real"
>> Windows computer.
> 
> Clarification: I was asking for NATIVE ARM64 Cygwin binaries. The
> x86_64 to ARM64 emulation feels like having a racecar driving in
> molasses, just annoying users, and is thus no option.

Someone would probably have to do a decent amount of work to figure out how to 
get fork emulation working natively under Arm64 Windows, and other critical core 
emulation functions, on Arm64 Windows machines, probably as part of a paid or 
lengthy academic project, to donate to the volunteer Cygwin project.

Any CS/EE PhD candidates out there looking for a project, or embedded engineers 
needing to support POSIX toolchains and environments under native Arm64 Windows?

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

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