On Wed, 5 May 2004, loan stocker wrote: > I was trying to get cygwin running for AMD 64 > platform. But bombs on me after " fork error " . I > have read from the grapevine that there are patches > for this which require me download the source and > compile it. But I dont know how to compile cygwin > sources if I dont have cygwin running in the first > place.
Cross compile, compile on another machine that Cygwin does work on, etc. > If anybody has done this, can you please give me step > by step breakdown of this can be done? > thanks Unless you plan on hacking those sources yourself to make it work (AFAIK, the patches you describe alone do not), I'd suggest you just sit back and wait on: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00321.html -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
