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Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:14:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: setup.exe now requires administrator privileges
- References: <515BC9DE dot 8040607 at shaddybaddah dot name> <20130403102038 dot GA4243 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <515E3861 dot 9000802 at shaddybaddah dot name>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Apr 5 13:35, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Apr 3 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Apr 3 17:19, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> </snip>
> >>Based on my limited understanding of .exe.manifest files, I believe the
> >>problem should be related to this change to Cygwin setup:
> >>
> >>http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/setup/setup.exe.manifest?rev=2.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=cygwin-apps
> >>
> >>with changelog excerpt:
> >>
> >>
> >>* setup.exe.manifest: Set processorArchitecture to "*".
> >>Add explicit requestedExecutionLevel for 64-bit compatibility.
> >>
> >>Am I correct?
> >
> >Probably yes. Yaakov, why is that necessary for 64 bit? Is that
> >documented somewhere?
>
> I tried working around this by writing an in-place
> cygpkg64.exe.manifest with <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker"
> uiAccess="false"/>, not really expecting it to work. And of course it
> has not.
>
> Is it possible to cross-build setup64.exe from 32 bit Cygwin? Is there
> much mucking about to achieve it?
It's possible using the mingw-w64 64 bit cross toolchain. You just
have to remove the requestedExecutionLevel entry from the manifest
file.
Corinna
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