Thank you for your answer. Do I understand it right that the program would have to use the cygwin dlls - which, however, are 32bit. And it is not possible to run a 64bit-program using these dlls.
The problem I have: I would like to build Atlas in Window - it works using the 32bit version with cygwin-gcc. However, I need the 64bit version as the total memory of my application is larger than the usable 2 GB. Is there any alternative to cygwin to run the configure script and the make? Alex Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:48:38AM -0700, LionAM wrote: >>I have installed cygwin together with mingw64 (4.5.1-1). Compiling in >>principle works fine - however the programs are compiled for windows use, >>not cygwin. One of the problems I experience is that one cannot use >>cygwin-paths (e.g., /home/am/test.dat) within the programs, instead you have >>to use the corresponding windows path (e.g., C:\Cygwin\home\am\test.dat). >>However, the cygwin "make" sometimes uses cygwin paths or commands - so it >>does not work well with the mingw64. >> >>Is there an compiler switch to make mingw use the cygwin environment? > > No. These are *MinGW* compilers. They are supposed to create > pure-windows executables. That is their sole purpose. There is no > 64-bit version of Cygwin and, without a lot of head-standing, you'd need > that to create a 64-bit application that understood Cygwin paths. > > cgf > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Cygwin-paths-in-mingw64-tp30132781p30134265.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
