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

2024-05-18 Thread Mark Geisert via Cygwin
Is there a technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on 64bit Windows? https://cygwin.com/install.html has the following... =A note about 32-bit Cygwin =The limited address space of 32-bit Windows means that random failures =in the fork(2) system call are more likely. Therefore, w

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

2024-05-18 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
On 2024-05-18 14:13, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2024 at 13:22, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: Is there a technical reason why 32bit Cygwin cannot be installed on 64bit Windows? We like to create a CI buil

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

2024-05-18 Thread Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
On Sat, 18 May 2024 at 13:22, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin > 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 fo

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

2024-05-18 Thread Roland Mainz via Cygwin
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 9:48 AM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin 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 Cy