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. >
The uname binary calls a runtime function from MSYS so it would be within the MSYS runtime. Source for that is in CVS at the MinGW project. I don't remember enough to give you a filename. IIRC the path is winsup/cygwin. > 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. > I don't think it has been a waste. It seems to be a productive discussion. Earnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
