Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Warren Young wrote: On 4/25/2014 11:26, Tom Szczesny wrote: CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 "WOW64" means 32-bit Windows emulated on top of 64-bit Windows.[1] This tells you that Cygwin is running inside that 32-bit environment. [snip] You don't have to guess and hope, though. From 32-bit Cygwin: $ f

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Warren Young
On 4/25/2014 11:26, Tom Szczesny wrote: CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 "WOW64" means 32-bit Windows emulated on top of 64-bit Windows.[1] This tells you that Cygwin is running inside that 32-bit environment. If I did install the 64-bit version, when I rebuild my Linux app on Cygwin, do I automatical

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:21:57PM +0200, Erwin Waterlander wrote: >Op 25-4-2014 20:13 Tom Szczesny schreef: >> result from uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Toshiba 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin > >uname -a on 64 bit cygwin should say something like: > >CYGWIN_NT-6.1 PC2 1.7.28(0.27

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Op 25-4-2014 20:13 Tom Szczesny schreef: result from uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Toshiba 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin uname -a on 64 bit cygwin should say something like: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 PC2 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) 2014-02-09 21:06 x86_64 Cygwin Note there is no "WOW64", and there

64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Tom Szczesny
result from uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Toshiba 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin Sorry that I was not clear. I have an open source app (hosted on github.com) that was developed for Linux. It compiles and works on Windows-64 using my current version of Cygwin, but I suspect that I a

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Tim Prince
On 4/25/2014 1:38 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Tom Szczesny wrote: I have a 64-bit Windows laptop, and installed Cygwin several years ago. I wish to verify that I did install the 64-bit installation. I get the following results: cygcheck -V cygcheck (

Re: 64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Tom Szczesny wrote: >I have a 64-bit Windows laptop, and installed Cygwin several years ago. >I wish to verify that I did install the 64-bit installation. >I get the following results: > >cygcheck -V >cygcheck (cygwin) 1.7.15 > >uname >CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 >

64-bit vs. 32-bit

2014-04-25 Thread Tom Szczesny
I have a 64-bit Windows laptop, and installed Cygwin several years ago. I wish to verify that I did install the 64-bit installation. I get the following results: cygcheck -V cygcheck (cygwin) 1.7.15 uname CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 If I did install the 64-bit version, when I rebuild my Linux app on Cyg