On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:43:52 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > My working assumption is that the differences between the two > architectures can nearly be absorbed by cygport so that a single > definition can be used to produce both packages. I also hope that it > will be possible in the future to cross-compile between 32bit and 64bit, > either direction is fine, but compiling on 32bit may be more practical > at the moment.
That is definitely the goal, although obviously some changes to existing .cygport's and patchsets may be required. A 32-to-64 toolchain will be ready very soon; the reverse is a lower priority at the moment. Yaakov