My experience build the 2.6.17 kernel under Cygwin

2007-01-09 Thread Gabriel Goldstein
First I must say I love Cygwin. I have a few guys here with VM Ware and Redhat for development. I've been reluctant to go down that path because of the resources it takes up. So when it came to my first shot at kernel targeting, I decided to give Cygwin a run. While most everything worked quite

RE: Cygwin make menuconfig hangs

2007-01-04 Thread Gabriel Goldstein
OK, if you're just trying to build menuconfig with Cygwin's gcc, get rid of your references to .so's and copied/renamed .dll.a files and just install the ncurses and libncurses-devel and libncurses8. That should be all you need to allow you to build against Cygwin's ncurses. -- Believe me, I woul

RE: Cygwin make menuconfig hangs

2007-01-03 Thread Gabriel Goldstein
Gabriel Goldstein wrote: > Hello, > > Currently I can build the linux kernel 2.6.17 under Cygwin without issue > with a stock .config file from my development board supplier (ARM9, > AT91RM9200). However, I can not get make menuconfig to work. > > I'm using 'm

Cygwin make menuconfig hangs

2007-01-03 Thread Gabriel Goldstein
Hello, Currently I can build the linux kernel 2.6.17 under Cygwin without issue with a stock .config file from my development board supplier (ARM9, AT91RM9200). However, I can not get make menuconfig to work. I'm using 'make ARCH=arm KBUILD_HAVE_NLS=no menuconfig'. Originally this was failing