On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Christian Franke <christian.fra...@t-online.de> wrote: > Alexandre Bique wrote: >> >> I am trying to build grub2-svn for windows by using mingw32 or cygwin >> but it fails to generate valid windows executables (grub-setup, >> grub-mkimage, etc...). >> >> My configure line: >> ./configure --prefix $HOME/grub-install >> >> using mingw32, msys, gcc 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3), binutils >> 2.19.1 >> I also tried with cygwin, gcc 3.4.4, binutils 2.18.50.20080625. >> > > Grub2 should build out of the box on Cygwin. The following works for me > with current grub2 svn (revision 2001) on current Cygwin 1.5.25-15: > > $ ./configure --enable-grub-fstest --prefix=/tmp/inst > $ make > $ make install > $ /tmp/inst/bin/grub-mkrescue grub-rescue.iso > ... boot grub-rescue.iso ... > > There is actually one issue in current grub2 svn: Build with > --enable-grub-emu configure option does not work. It fails with > undefined symbol 'grub_millisleep'. > > What is the error message you got on Cygwin ?
The problem is that make install installs elf binaries and not win32 binaries. But win32 binaries are compiled. I moved win32 binaries by hand. There is also a problem if you specify a root directory with space, i think that some variables are not protected with "$my_var" in some shell scripts. Thank you very much. -- Alexandre Bique _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
