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How can I compile Cygwin for an unsupported platform (PowerPC, Alpha, ARM, Itanium)?

April 26, 2017Alpha arm Cygwin Itanium Platform PowerPC unsupported

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How can I compile Cygwin for an unsupported platform (PowerPC, Alpha, ARM, Itanium)?

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Unfortunately, this will be difficult. Exception handling and signals support semantics and args have been designed for x86 so you would need to write specific support for your platform. We don’t know of any other incompatibilities. Please send us patches if you do this work!