Re: [Mingw-users] Problems running msys and/or msysgit on windows 64-bit

[Patrick G. <pa...@pa...>]

LRN,

Yes, I did try that. This is what the install program runs for msysgit, 
and the install program fails as does running msys from the msys startup 
icon that is installed. That's how I run msys, but I still have a 
failure. I did notice this:

rem this should let run MSYS shell on x64
rem if "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" == "AMD64"(
rem  SET COMSPEC=%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
rem )

On my windows AMI, PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE is "x86" but 
PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 is "AMD64". I've tried using 
PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432, but that doesn't work either.

I have a vmware windows instance that both msys/msysgit work on and it 
happens to be a newer version of windows:

C:\msysgit\msysgit>ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]

but the Amazon 64-bit AMI is 6.0.6002

Not sure if that helps any.

Thank you!

Patrick



 I noticed though that LRN wrote:
> On 01.02.2010 23:50, Patrick Galbraith wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to get msys or msysgit running on a windows 2008 64-bit 
>> Amazon AMI right now and for some reason, I can't run any of the shells 
>> (sh.exe or bash.exe) without it crashing. I'm not sure what the problem 
>> is. I think someone once told me that it has to do with what version of 
>> command.exe you use (32-bit or 64-bit). I tried both cmd.exe 
>> executables, but I still have the bash shell not run. I get this error:
>>
>> http://skitch.com/capttofu/nugbj/windows-2008-win64
>>
>> Any tips on how I might debug and solve this issue, I would be so 
>> grateful and give thanks in advance!
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Patrick
>>   
>>     
> Have you tried running msys.bat ? It does have special code for 64-bit
> systems.
>