From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9182 invoked by alias); 5 May 2004 20:05:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9175 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 20:05:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO esds.vss.fsi.com) (66.136.174.212) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 May 2004 20:05:25 -0000 Received: from fordpc.vss.fsi.com (fordpc [198.51.27.93]) by esds.vss.fsi.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id i45K5NO25636; Wed, 5 May 2004 15:05:23 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 20:05:00 -0000 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: loan stocker cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running cygwin for AMD 64 platform In-Reply-To: <20040505190937.13516.qmail@web50206.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040505190937.13516.qmail@web50206.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00172.txt.bz2 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/