Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:06:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin on Vista 64-bit Message-ID: <20050920130607.GB333@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <432DCD9F DOT 8020509 AT myrealbox DOT com> <20050918205112 DOT GF5555 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <432DD66D DOT 2020708 AT myrealbox DOT com> <432FBB34 DOT 4060103 AT lapo DOT it> <433001A4 DOT 3070003 AT myrealbox DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433001A4.3070003@myrealbox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Sep 20 05:33, Tim Prince wrote: > Lapo Luchini wrote: > > >Tim Prince wrote: > > > >>I am aware of that policy, that no fix will be made to support such > >>software. Just thought there might be a work-around. If not, I will > >>consider Vista broken. > > > > > >FWIW, it seems to run fine on WinXP x64. > >(in fact, I used it for a month now) > > > Yes, considering that modification of the cygwin shortcut is no longer > required for the released OS, the problem with Vista was an unpleasant > surprise. I'm finding that certain applications require unannounced > patches to run on the released X64 OS. Others run fine on Vista if you > can figure out how to set them up. Meanwhile, major retailers act like > it's a secret their machines run 64-bit OS, offering no options but > 32-bit XP home and Pro. The problem isn't about being 64 or 32 bit in the first place, the problem is Vista/Longhorn itself. This is a new, unreleased OS which has the NT version number 6.0. Cygwin doesn't know about this OS, so it falls back to assume that this OS doesn't have all the features it actually has. It's more treated like a 9x version if you want to say so for now, which leads to all sorts of trouble behind the scenes. Having said that, it's really somewhat early to expect Cygwin to run on Longhorn for now. I know that it basically works in Beta 1, but it doesn't make much sense to put a lot of work into that at this early stage. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/