On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Earnie <[email protected]> wrote: > NightStrike wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Earnie<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> NightStrike wrote: >>> >>>> On a long term scale, it'd be nice to compile msys natively for >>>> win64. That's a looooong way off, though. >>>> >>>> >>> I have no way to even begin to try it. First though one would need to >>> bootstrap GCC 64 bits with the MSYS runtime while at the same time >>> bootstrapping MSYS runtime into 64 bits. >>> >> I thought the first step was porting newlib. Doesn't msys still use that? >> > Yes, it uses newlib and a mix of Windows API calls. But newlib may > actually be the easier part to convert. >
Earnie: where specifically is uname source code? I can take a look to Windows API and since I have a x64 OS can check different results and let you know. If I can add proper identification of x86_64 (based from the OS it is running) will make me feel better for making you guys waste all this time answering this thread. Thank you. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
