On 2018-07-10 07:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 10 10:51, David Allsopp wrote: >> I've been trying out the x86 emulation in Microsoft's ARM64 version of >> Windows 10 1803. >> >> I had two issues with Cygwin x86. The first, which is simple, is that >> Windows doesn't by default create C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\etc which >> causes /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh to exit with an error all the >> time. I wonder if there's a possible workaround to make that less intrusive?
C:\ > mklink /d /h C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\etc C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc Note: args reversed from ln > Try if C:\Windows\Sysnative\drivers\etc works. That should be the > easiest way to fix the issue in the script. SysNative does not exist under x64 - could check arch dependent, or dir dependent: check for hardcoded `cygpath -W`/SysNative/drivers/etc/ dir (unless there is a standard SysNative folder id or env var I can't find), then fall back to `cygpath -S`/drivers/etc/. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
