From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 64-bit Cygwin: OpenGL and piping
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F7A0CD.5070704@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <290E20B455C66743BE178C5C84F1240822406074F1@EXMB01CMS.surrey.ac.uk>
On 30/07/2013 12:02, l.wood@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> We're experiencing problems with the new 64-bit Cygwin with Geomview
> (http://www.geomview.org). OpenGL doesn't appear to function.
per the announce mail [1], GLX support is disabled on cygwin64 as it crashes.
It will be turned on once we work out how to stop it doing that :)
> Piping communication from third-party applications fails - though both
> opengl and piping work fine in 32-bit Cygwin and on other 32- and 64-bit
> platforms.
Can you give a simple example of this failure, please?
> It would be helpful to indicate on www.cygwin.com that 64-bit is very new,
> and 32-bit can be regarded as stable...
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2013-06/msg00001.html
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2013-07-30 14:01 l.wood
2013-07-30 14:30 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2013-07-31 4:11 ` Andrey Repin
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