“CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set” error on Cygwin-x64

Question

I\'m trying to install openssl in cygwin by following these instructions: I dowloaded the latest tarball from this site http://www.openssl.org/source/, and put it in C:\\cyg

Answer 1

It would seem that 1.0.1 does not have support for Cygwin/x64.

This thread indicates that the necessary patches have been pulled into the 1.0.2 branch.