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@xxxxxxxxxx/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
