Cygwin is slow -- in my experience, about 10x - 20x slower than native Linux on the same hardware.
If you get a CD of your favorite distro and install it on a spare PC, you'll be up and running in (from my experience) less than an hour. Meanwhile, if you'd started a kernel build (from clean) in Cygwin at the same time, it would barely be started. Cygwin is very nice for *small* situations where a software vendor has some code that runs on Unix, and wants a quick-and-dirty way to "port" that software to Windows. (This is exactly what Xilinx does with what they call "Xygwin".) But Cygwin is not a practical way to get any serious work done. -----Original Message----- From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:33 PM To: Prakash kanthi Cc: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ELDK on windows/cygwin In message <20030227173016.61851.qmail at web41209.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote: > > Does anyone know if ELDK is available for Windows No, it is not. > platform (like with cygwin, etc...)? Did anyone try > using ELDK on windows/cygwin? We had a few customers asking for it, but it would be a major PITA to port, and we have zero windoze experience (DENX is 100% Microsoft- free :-) and it is so much easier to use a Linux server (probably running Samba to act as windoze file server). Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money? - Ogden Nash ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
