configuring buildroot for ARM using Cygwin

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Dec 15 14:44:00 UTC 2005


On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:57:28AM -0000, Matt Sartori wrote:
> When I run make menuconfig (which doesn't seem to display properly in a
> cygwin window) there seems to be no option to select Cygwin or to tell
> the configuration tool that I'm not on linux. 

the entire point of cygwin is that tools shouldnt care ... cygwin
smells like linux so packages should work just fine

> Unless I explicitly deselect threading support the subsequent make fails
> when it can't find pthreadtypes.h. Even without it the make fails when
> it can't find elf.h.

last i heard on the crossgcc list, cygwin support sucks because of a
lot of quirks in the filesystem behavior
-mike



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