Now I have just discovered how! Installing the bsdtar and friends packages. I was sure that there was an alternative to p7zip but don't remember which... It is bsdtar...
Thanks, that is useful. I'm trying to work with a build system that assumes p7zip, and is using it to extract from an msi file. bsdtar is not working as a drop-in replacement for this, and it would be nice to remove p7zip from http://cygwin.com/cygwin-64bit-missing regardless. I reported the inquiry about the 64 bit assembly upstream at https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/support-requests/6/#2150 and found some patches were required to get the 64 bit assembly to work. We can either modify the .cygport file to use the C version as I initially suggested, or modify the .src.patch file to get the 64 bit assembly version working. This also requires running dos2unix on the assembly file in order to get the patch to apply. I'm still not clear, do 64 bit packages have their own independent set of patches, or is it necessary to write patches that work for both 32 bit and 64 bit? -Tony -- 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