Angstrom on Cygwin

[lloydchang at gmail.com]

Hi Ignacio,

To cross-compile for a known machine type, Cliff's suggestion of using
a Linux virtual machine is an easy option if you don't have a physical
Linux machine.

If you want to build hosting on Cygwin, some packages won't natively
compile unless you apply their Cygwin-specific patches.
Alternatively, you can pre-install; for quilt-native, you can install
quilt via Cygwin setup.exe, then update ASSUME_PROVIDED in OE's
local.conf

To build hosting & targeting for Cygwin, you may want to use another
tool - Shell / Cygwin g-b-s, Make, or SCons - with better support for
Cygwin, or even teach them to understand OE metadata and bitbake
files.

-- Lloyd

On 5/20/08, Esben Haabendal <esbenhaabendal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> You might want to take a look at the patches included in bug #3402
> which I submitted some time ago. At that point in time, they were
> enough to fix OE so that I could build an external-toolchain for PPC.
> Of-course, they don't apply anymore, but I am sure some of them (most
> of them probably) are still relevant.
>
> Good luck,
> Esben Haabendal
>
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