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Re: Design mixed 32 and 64 bit systems.


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 06:17:24AM +0800, JonY wrote:
>On 11/28/2013 04:11, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Technically, the following is off topic for this list.  But because
>> it is about what appears to me as a done deal - something that is too
>> late to change - I thought it might be off-topic for the main list.
>> We can move it there if you feel that appropriate.
>> 
>> As I understand it, 32 bit and 64 bit have to be in different directory
>> trees, e.g., C:\cygwin and C:\cygwin64.  As I understand it, that
>> is because they both look for /bin/cygwin1.dll and avoid getting the
>> wrong one by having different root directories.
>> 
>
>Windows will spick the correct bitness if you have both in PATH. This is
>not the case if you somehow managed to install 64bit Cygwin on 32bit
>Windows, in which case you deserve the error :)
>
>> My question is why 64 bit wasn't named cygwin2.dll?  32 bit would
>> be version 1.7.25 and the corresponding 64 bit version would be
>> 2.7.25.  Could that have allowed a single, mixed, transitional,
>> 64-except-32-when-no-64 installation?
>> 
>
>Why? It is built from exactly the same sources, it is also the first
>version on 64bit Windows. Not to mention many programs hardcoded to load
>"cygwin1.dll" dynamically.

And, even if we had put a "cygwin2.dll" in /bin, there would still be
conflicts with the program names of all of the other programs in /bin.

cgf


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