[erlang-questions] Which On Windows

[Dave Cottlehuber]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, at 13:06, Michael Scharrer wrote:
> Hi Luke,
> 
> i think there is a litte issue in the documentation for building erlang 
> on windows, because the VCPATH or else are not cygwin'ish... with 
> make_winpath() or make_upath() or else which you are able to set in 
> the .bash_profile and this don´t work for me in the newest cygwin 64.
> It would be great if you can test this later...
> 
> 
> Just here the example
> 
> ## The PATH variable should be Cygwin'ish
> VCPATH=
> $VISUAL_STUDIO_ROOT/VC/bin/amd64:\
> $VISUAL_STUDIO_ROOT/VC/vcpackages:\
> $VISUAL_STUDIO_ROOT/Common7/IDE:\
> $VISUAL_STUDIO_ROOT/Common7/Tools:\
> $SDK/bin/x86
> 
> 
> 
> Are you sure, that it uses for a x64 build of erlang the Windows Kit´s 
> for x86 for the tools rc and mt?

Yes. This is correct. 32-bit compiler toolchain can generate 64-bit
artefacts.

A+
Dave