X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Ian Puleston Subject: Re: Vista 64 users, please test snapshot Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <20061205190620 DOT GK9829 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > I've applied a patch to Cygwin which should workaround what appears to > be a compatibility bug in WOW64 on Vista 64. > > Please try the latest snapshot DLL from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ This worked nicely for me, except that I do see a couple of problems with Cygwin in Vista 64 that I do not see in an identical Cygwin installation under Windows XP: 1. The bash $PATH environment variable does not get set properly - it has all of the paths from the windows %PATH% (properly translated to /cygdrive/c) but does not include "/usr/bin". 2. Some Windows environment variables are getting translated to "/cygdrive/c", but some are not. The %PATH%, %TEMP% and %TMP% are translated, but I have GTK installed and, amongst others, %GTK_BASEPATH% does not get translated: [~]: echo $TEMP /cygdrive/c/Users/Ian/AppData/Local/Temp [~]: echo $GTK_BASEPATH C:\GTK To work around these I had to add the following in my .bash_login, neither of which were needed under Windows XP: # These not normally required but added for snapshot 12/6/06 for Vista 64: export PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH" export GTK_BASEPATH="/cygdrive/c/GTK" Ian -- 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/