CygWin Cross-tool Package?

CygWin Cross-tool Package?

[Kevin D. Kissell]

As the person guilty of inventing the damned thing, I've been trying to
help folks keep the SMTC kernel working, but it's strictly a spare-time
thing - nobody pays me for time or materials.  So I'm not willing to
spend the time and money to set up a Linux box at home that would serve
only to build SMTC kernels.  For better or for worse, my home office
system is a Windows XP machine.   I've got Cygwin installed, and that
gives me git to peruse the sources, but I've got no means of building a
kernel.  I know that, in theory, I could build my own MIPS/Linux cross
tools under Cygwin, but looking at various email archives, it looks like
the procedure is moderately complex and fragile, and, frankly, I just
don't have the spare time to deal with it.  By any chance, could one of
you point me to a functional, pre-built package I could install under
Cygwin to do kernel builds?

            Regards,

            Kevin K.

Re: CygWin Cross-tool Package?

[Florian Fainelli]

Hello Kevin,

On Sunday 02 January 2011 21:06:22 Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> As the person guilty of inventing the damned thing, I've been trying to
> help folks keep the SMTC kernel working, but it's strictly a spare-time
> thing - nobody pays me for time or materials.  So I'm not willing to
> spend the time and money to set up a Linux box at home that would serve
> only to build SMTC kernels.  For better or for worse, my home office
> system is a Windows XP machine.   I've got Cygwin installed, and that
> gives me git to peruse the sources, but I've got no means of building a
> kernel.  I know that, in theory, I could build my own MIPS/Linux cross
> tools under Cygwin, but looking at various email archives, it looks like
> the procedure is moderately complex and fragile, and, frankly, I just
> don't have the spare time to deal with it.  By any chance, could one of
> you point me to a functional, pre-built package I could install under
> Cygwin to do kernel builds?

Providing that you install of the required dependencies (subversion, flex, 
bison ...), OpenWrt can build a Linux kernel and root filesystem under Cygwin.

Hope that helps.
--
Florian

Re: CygWin Cross-tool Package?

[Kevin D. Kissell]

On 1/2/2011 12:23 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hello Kevin,
>
> On Sunday 02 January 2011 21:06:22 Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
>> ...By any chance, could one of
>> you point me to a functional, pre-built package I could install under
>> Cygwin to do kernel builds?
> Providing that you install of the required dependencies (subversion, flex, 
> bison ...), OpenWrt can build a Linux kernel and root filesystem under Cygwin.
>
> Hope that helps.
Sigh.  It looked promising, but...

$ make menuconfig
Checking 'working-make'... ok.
Checking 'case-sensitive-fs'... failed.
Checking 'getopt'... ok.
Checking 'fileutils'... ok.
Checking 'working-gcc'... ok.
Checking 'working-g++'... ok.
Checking 'ncurses'... failed.
Checking 'zlib'... ok.
Checking 'gawk'... ok.
Checking 'flex'... ok.
Checking 'unzip'... ok.
Checking 'bzip2'... ok.
Checking 'patch'... ok.
Checking 'perl'... ok.
Checking 'python'... ok.
Checking 'wget'... ok.
Checking 'gnutar'... ok.
Checking 'svn'... ok.
Checking 'gnu-find'... ok.
Checking 'getopt-extended'... ok.
Checking 'non-root'... ok.

Build dependency: OpenWrt can only be built on a case-sensitive filesystem
...

It will probably be easier for me to get some random cheap PC running
Ubuntu than to get a non-case-sensitive filesystem working on an
existing XP platform.

Any recommendations on cross tool packages for X86/X86-64 Ubuntu
installations?  Or would splicing the linux-mips.org kernel tree under
the OpenWrt structure - but under Linux this time - still be the
shortest path?

            Regards, and thanks,

            Kevin K.

Re: CygWin Cross-tool Package?

[Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE]

On 01/03/2011 04:38 PM, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
>
> Sigh.  It looked promising, but...
>
> $ make menuconfig
> Checking 'working-make'... ok.
> Checking 'case-sensitive-fs'... failed.
> Checking 'getopt'... ok.
> Checking 'fileutils'... ok.
> Checking 'working-gcc'... ok.
> Checking 'working-g++'... ok.
> Checking 'ncurses'... failed.
> Checking 'zlib'... ok.
> Checking 'gawk'... ok.
> Checking 'flex'... ok.
> Checking 'unzip'... ok.
> Checking 'bzip2'... ok.
> Checking 'patch'... ok.
> Checking 'perl'... ok.
> Checking 'python'... ok.
> Checking 'wget'... ok.
> Checking 'gnutar'... ok.
> Checking 'svn'... ok.
> Checking 'gnu-find'... ok.
> Checking 'getopt-extended'... ok.
> Checking 'non-root'... ok.
>
> Build dependency: OpenWrt can only be built on a case-sensitive filesystem
> ...
>
> It will probably be easier for me to get some random cheap PC running
> Ubuntu than to get a non-case-sensitive filesystem working on an
> existing XP platform.
>
> Any recommendations on cross tool packages for X86/X86-64 Ubuntu
> installations?  Or would splicing the linux-mips.org kernel tree under
> the OpenWrt structure - but under Linux this time - still be the
> shortest path?
>
>             Regards, and thanks,
>
>             Kevin K.
>   


Hello,
If you really want to still use window$, you can use vwmare with an ubuntu
virtual machine.

Best regards,
AWG

Re: CygWin Cross-tool Package?

[Florian Fainelli]

On Monday 03 January 2011 16:38:20 Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> On 1/2/2011 12:23 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Hello Kevin,
> > 
> > On Sunday 02 January 2011 21:06:22 Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> >> ...By any chance, could one of
> >> you point me to a functional, pre-built package I could install under
> >> Cygwin to do kernel builds?
> > 
> > Providing that you install of the required dependencies (subversion,
> > flex, bison ...), OpenWrt can build a Linux kernel and root filesystem
> > under Cygwin.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> 
> Sigh.  It looked promising, but...
> 
> $ make menuconfig
> Checking 'working-make'... ok.
> Checking 'case-sensitive-fs'... failed.
> Checking 'getopt'... ok.
> Checking 'fileutils'... ok.
> Checking 'working-gcc'... ok.
> Checking 'working-g++'... ok.
> Checking 'ncurses'... failed.
> Checking 'zlib'... ok.
> Checking 'gawk'... ok.
> Checking 'flex'... ok.
> Checking 'unzip'... ok.
> Checking 'bzip2'... ok.
> Checking 'patch'... ok.
> Checking 'perl'... ok.
> Checking 'python'... ok.
> Checking 'wget'... ok.
> Checking 'gnutar'... ok.
> Checking 'svn'... ok.
> Checking 'gnu-find'... ok.
> Checking 'getopt-extended'... ok.
> Checking 'non-root'... ok.
> 
> Build dependency: OpenWrt can only be built on a case-sensitive filesystem
> ...
> 
> It will probably be easier for me to get some random cheap PC running
> Ubuntu than to get a non-case-sensitive filesystem working on an
> existing XP platform.

And that can be achieved simply by using a case sensitive mount:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg81382.html

> 
> Any recommendations on cross tool packages for X86/X86-64 Ubuntu
> installations?  Or would splicing the linux-mips.org kernel tree under
> the OpenWrt structure - but under Linux this time - still be the
> shortest path?

OpenWrt or some other project like buildroot would work fine building a 
toolchain and kernel for that specific target.
--
Florian