On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:33 PM, JonY <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/30/2010 05:59, Luis Lavena wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I think its a bad idea to jump to conclusions based on OS running. What
> if I wanted to run plain mingw.org GCC on win64?
>
> IMHO, setting MSYSTEM would be a better approach.

You could just use the already existent PROCESSOR_* variables that
windows puts in the environment.  They should contain everything you
need.

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