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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 20:48:09 -0600
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Subject: Re: Deploy DLL for ARM64 and AMD64 in the same PATH?
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On 2025-09-03 13:56, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2025, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> 
>> Greetings
>>
>> Our software needs a 3rd party DLL (we cannot change the name...), but
>> we want to support ARM64 together with AMD64.
>>
>> Does Windows or Cygwin have a mechanism to deal with the situation
>> that both expects the DLL to be in the same path?
> 
> Not really.  The closest thing is ARM64EC and ARM64X, a DLL built with
> those will let you use the same DLL for both ARM64 and x64, but only on
> ARM64.  I know there has been work to support those in LLVM/LLD and
> mingw-w64, don't know about gcc/binutils support.
> 
> I think they expect the installer to decide which type of DLL to install
> based on the host machine...

Cygwin x86_64 and aarch64 have to be installed under different Cygwin root 
directories, and the binaries and libraries under each root's /bin/, so no 
conflict can occur.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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