> -----Original Message----- > From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org > [mailto:linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Dan Malek > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:33 AM > To: Robert P. J. Day > Cc: Embedded PPC Linux list > Subject: Re: cross-compiling under cygwin? > > > On Apr 8, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i've just had a request from a colleague who wants to do all the > > cross-compilation for our 8xx board on a windows box, rather than > > linux. > > Just remember there is lots more to building and developing > than compiling a kernel. In addition to the compiler, you need > lots of support tools. Once you get a kernel, you have to create > some kind of file system, of course NFS won't work on Windows,
If I were Catholic I'd have to say a bunch of Hail Mary's for mentioning this but... Yes you can run NFS on Windows. The systems we ship inside our equipment have a Win2k Server host and the embedded boards hang off of it. File exchange is done via NFS. Micro$oft has a huge free package called "Windows Services for Unix". It only runs on Win2k and XP Pro however. The other gotcha is that it can only export NTFS file systems, not FAT32. It is basically a better cygwin port than cygwin itself. I say this because its compiler can compile and run some RPC apps I normally use natively on the embedded systems. Cygwin couldn't (missing include files, etc.). Now I'm going to wash my mouth out with soap... Marc W. Howard
