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Re: Make for 64 bit Windows


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Make for 64 bit Windows
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:35:52 +0300

> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:21:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: OrangeDog <address@hidden>
> 
> > The 32-bit build of GNU Make for Windows should work on 64-bit Windows just
> fine.
> 
> Except that you cannot fork any 64-bit processes from it.

Windows doesn't support fork at all, so I'm not sure what you mean by
that.  If you mean run 64-bit processes, then I'm not aware of any
problems doing that from a 32-bit Make.

> For example, if you try to use a stdout redirect in a recipe:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> That's a 64-bit build of sh.

Not sure what is it that you wanted to show here.



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