From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:06:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Buildroot] About cygwin References: <20100822130319.2cb6e9e3@surf> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 2010-08-22, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:27:25 +1000 > Mitch Davis wrote: > >> Disclaimer: I may be wrong as I'm not part of buildroot team, just >> trying to help. > > You're correct: we don't support Cygwin. I'm not personally > interested by adding Cygwin support to Buildroot, and I think that > trying to do embedded Linux development inside Cygwin doesn't make > sense, you'd better use Linux on your development workstation. I've spent time supporting devlopment for eCos under Cygwin using Gnu toolchains. It's painful. It's a minor miracle that Cygwin works at all, and it's a major miracle that it works as well as it does. But it's still a constant, nagging souce of issues. > Now, if someone steps in and wants to improve Buildroot to support > Cygwin, why not, Because somebody who wants to do that is missing more than a few clues. I'd be rather wary of any changes they make. 1/2 :) > but we'll have to see how invasive the changes are. I don't think we > want to merge invasive Cygwin-specific changes if no-one is going to > maintain them on the long term. As none of the current main Buildroot > contributors use Windows and Cygwin, Cygwin support is probably going > to be broken quite often by mistake due to improvements we make to > Buildroot. > > Of course, that's my own personal point of view, not the one of the > Buildroot project as a whole. Wanting to do Linux development under Windows instead of Linux is just plain nuts. Even installing Linux on a VM is easier and will work a lot better. -- Grant