Re: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-31 Thread Samuel Robb
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 19:34 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote: > Samuel Robb wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:43 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >>I have to compile a Linux kernel using Cygwin on Windows XP (I know, > >> it's a > >> very silly thing, but it does not depend o

Re: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-31 Thread Claudio Scordino
Hi, I tried using the gcc toolchain of cygwin (i.e. no crosscompilation) but the following problems still appear (so the problem is not related to the toolchain itself). 1) make HOST_LOADLIBES="-lintl" HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.o HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms CC scripts/mo

Re: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-31 Thread Claudio Scordino
Samuel Robb wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:43 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote: Hi all, I have to compile a Linux kernel using Cygwin on Windows XP (I know, it's a very silly thing, but it does not depend on me, unfortunately...). I already have a gcc cross-compile toolchain for my target (

Re: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-28 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 7/28/07, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:36:45PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > > Claudio Scordino schrieb: > >> More general question: did anybody build succesfully a Linux kernel under > >> cygwin? > > > > Not a kernel but binutils, gcc-core, gcc-g++ and

Re: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:36:45PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > Claudio Scordino schrieb: >> More general question: did anybody build succesfully a Linux kernel under >> cygwin? > > Not a kernel but binutils, gcc-core, gcc-g++ and the stdlibc++, which is > about as complex as the kernel. Target wa

Re: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-28 Thread Reini Urban
Claudio Scordino schrieb: More general question: did anybody build succesfully a Linux kernel under cygwin? Not a kernel but binutils, gcc-core, gcc-g++ and the stdlibc++, which is about as complex as the kernel. Target was a fedora core. Managed mounts help a lot, but manual fixing case by

Re: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-27 Thread Samuel Robb
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:43 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote: > Hi all, > >I have to compile a Linux kernel using Cygwin on Windows XP (I know, it's > a > very silly thing, but it does not depend on me, unfortunately...). > > I already have a gcc cross-compile toolchain for my target (arm) ins

RE: Compiling a Linux kernel using Cygwin

2007-07-27 Thread Bob McConnell
Cross compiling on Cygwin is not foolish at all. I have two commercial SDKs set up that way and know of more than a few other people doing just that. I target both ARM7 and Motorola CPUs. In both cases the SDK installed on top of my existing Cygwin configuration and just worked. But you might have