On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:19:18PM -0700, Darik Horn wrote: >On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Ryan Johnson ><ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca> wrote: >> >> I tried to install 64-bit cygwin today, but I keep encountering the error >> message "setup-x86_64.exe is not a valid Win32 application." > >I had the same problem today on Windows 8. The solution was to >download the 64-bit setup program from a mirror instead of the >cygwin.com site. Try here: > >* http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/cygwin/64bit/setup64.exe
DO NOT USE THIS SETUP. It is an old version from the 64-bit beta testing days. The setup.ini associated with it has not been updated for a while. I've removed it from sourceware so it will soon be gone from the mirrors. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple