How to run the tup build system on Windows 8 64bit?

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I successfully use the tup build system on a Debian based system. According to the website, it should also run under Windows. I downloaded the latest version from their website for Windows, unzipped it and added the directory to the PATH env variable.

Unfortunately, I always get the following error: tup error: failed to create child process: No such file or directory

Did anyone manage to run tup under Win 8 64bit? How?

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Tup has added support for 64-bit Windows only recently (see the original commit here).

Since tup uses DLL injection to intercept the file-system and process-creation operations, it needed to have both 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs and properly working injection mechanism for both platforms.