From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by sourceware.org (Postfix, from userid 2201) id D59B03858C50; Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:00:07 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org D59B03858C50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Jon TURNEY To: cygwin-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [newlib-cygwin] Update FAQs for removal of 32-bit Cygwin X-Act-Checkin: newlib-cygwin X-Git-Author: Jon Turney X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Oldrev: 9193f6efdeb090a677fe94b2279ede0d011246b9 X-Git-Newrev: b441bad1827378cd31f265c795e99aae70a86941 Message-Id: <20220712130007.D59B03858C50@sourceware.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:00:07 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: cygwin-cvs@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin core component git logs List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:00:08 -0000 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=3Dnewlib-cygwin.git;h=3Db441bad1827= 378cd31f265c795e99aae70a86941 commit b441bad1827378cd31f265c795e99aae70a86941 Author: Jon Turney Date: Fri Jul 1 15:20:42 2022 +0100 Update FAQs for removal of 32-bit Cygwin =20 Update FAQs for removal of 32-bit Cygwin Also update FAQs for dropping support for Windows Vista/Server 20008 Diff: --- winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml | 4 +--- winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml | 3 --- winsup/doc/faq-what.xml | 12 +++++------- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml index 3c6bf7b46..c2c4004c1 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ would be difficult. Where is Objective C? =20 -Support for compiling Objective C is available in the gcc{4= }-objc +Support for compiling Objective C is available in the gcc-o= bjc package; resulting binaries will depend on the libobjc2 package at runtime. @@ -684,8 +684,6 @@ installed; you at least need gcc-g++, =20 -Building for 32-bit Cygwin also requires -mingw64-i686-gcc-g++ and mingw64-i686-zlib. Building for 64-bit Cygwin also requires mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ and mingw64-x86_64-zlib. diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml index cfa771098..ce1069616 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-setup.xml @@ -383,9 +383,6 @@ are strongly advised not to attempt to at once, unless you have a lot of free disk space, a very high speed netwo= rk connection, and the system will not be required for any other purpose for many hours (or days) until installation completes. -For a 32-bit Cygwin installation, you can not install everything, as the -installation will fail because the 4GB memory available is insufficient to= allow -all the DLLs required to run along with the programs using them. =20 diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml index 77ba1c5fd..4bdbf4eff 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-what.xml @@ -30,13 +30,11 @@ They can be used from one of the provided Unix shells l= ike bash, tcsh or zsh. What versions of Windows are supported? =20 -Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Wi= ndows, -from Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server 2008 and all -later versions of Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations. -The 32 bit version of Cygwin also runs in the WOW64 32 bit environment on -released 64 bit versions of Windows including ARM PCs, -the 64 bit version of course only on 64 bit AMD/Intel compatible PCs. - +Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Wi= ndows. +This includes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and all later versions of +Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations, on 64 bit AMD/Intel +compatible PCs, and under x64 emulation on ARM PCs running Windows 11. + Keep in mind that Cygwin can only do as much as the underlying OS supports. Because of this, Cygwin will behave differently, and exhibit different limitations, on the various versions of Windows.