Re: running self compiled 32 bit binary on 64 bit Windows?

[cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>]

On 6/6/2018 7:50 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> 
> On Windows 7 32 bit I have compiled some binaries by myself.

Help us help you by giving us how you compiled these and with what set
of tools.

> I can run them there but not on a Windows 8 64 bit: no (error) message,
> nothing happens.
> 

In what shell are you running these (Cygwin bash, cmd.exe, etc)?
What happens if you use cmd.exe?

> admin@WIN-7T5P92ALEEB:/sw/cygwin-7_32/jed-0.99-20_116/bin: uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.3 WIN-7T5P92ALEEB 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:16 x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> admin@WIN-7T5P92ALEEB:/sw/cygwin-7_32/jed-0.99-20_116/bin: ll jed
> -rwxr-xr-x  admin    None     480,235 2018-04-10 11:58:59 jed
> 
> admin@WIN-7T5P92ALEEB:/sw/cygwin-7_32/jed-0.99-20_116/bin: file jed
> jed: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
> 
> admin@WIN-7T5P92ALEEB:/sw/cygwin-7_32/jed-0.99-20_116/bin: ldd jed
>         ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7ffe0e520000)
>         ??? => ??? (0x77330000)
>         wow64.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/SYSTEM32/wow64.dll (0x772d0000)
>         wow64win.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/wow64win.dll (0x77260000)
>         wow64cpu.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/wow64cpu.dll (0x77320000)
>         

No mention of Cygwin in this list so you must have used a non-cygwin
tool to build the package.

> admin@WIN-7T5P92ALEEB:/sw/cygwin-7_32/jed-0.99-20_116/bin: ./jed

Try:
cmd /c start cmd

In the new command window:
jed

> admin@WIN-7T5P92ALEEB:/sw/cygwin-7_32/jed-0.99-20_116/bin: 
> 
> 
> Do I have to install some 32 bit libs? Which ones?
> 

We don't know yet, you might try using GDB to capture the error but
until we have more we can't help further.

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