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On 6/27/2011 6:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 17:58 -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >> Today, Cygwin DLLs all have the form cyg$SONAME.dll. In a 64-bit Cygwin, >> 32-bit DLLs would retain this naming convention and 64-bit DLLs would be >> named cyg64$SONAME.dll. > > 1) A similar naming scheme for mingw64 was already rejected. > 2) Accomodating the "cyg" prefix is hard enough; using different naming > schemes for x86 and x64 would be a disaster. How so? The logic for the dealing with the prefix already exists. Wouldn't it be a relatively simple matter to make the string used for the prefix vary based on the current architecture, especially if both variants begin with "cyg"?
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