Re: Running 64bit processes from 32bit Cygwin

2008-09-02 Thread Robert McKay
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 32bit processes can launch 64 bit processes, and vice versa. > You are not trapped in emulation. > Simply via the normal CreateProcess, or system(), or ShellExecute(). > There's no need to ask Explorer to do it for you. Except...

RE: Running 64bit processes from 32bit Cygwin

2008-09-02 Thread Jay
[Robert] Can anyone tell me for sure that it's impossible to run a 64bit [Robert] windows process from 32bit Cygwin? Or rather.. is it possible to spawn [Robert] a 64bit process from Cygwin and have it not be trapped inside WoW64 [Robert] emulation? It seems as though once you're i

Running 64bit processes from 32bit Cygwin

2008-09-01 Thread Robert McKay
Hi all, I have a problem with running powershell scripts from within cygwin.. basically no matter what I do it always ends up running the powershell process as 32bit when invoked from within Cygwin. This normally wouldn't make a difference, but I need to use a powershell extension that only exists