On 11 August 2006 12:09, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> I need to compile a nios2 GCC toolchain which is compatible with the
> Cygwin that Altera included in the Nios 5.0/6.0 product.
>
> Does anyone know where I can find a coherent snapshot of a Cygwin
> repository as far back as 2003('ish)?
Google for the "Cygwin Time Machine".
> My problem is that the __getreent() entry does not exist in that old
> Cygwin installation that Altera in their wisdom included in Nios
> 5.0/6.0. I don't know if this is the *only* problem or whether other
> incompatibilities where introduced at the same time.
>
> The Cygwin that comes with Nios 5.0/6.0 is not complete enough to
> build a GCC toolchain.
Surely the better option would be to crosscompile your toolchain against
up-to-date cygwin? The generated object files should still be the same.
> Some more details on what I'm working on:
>
> http://www.zylin.com/nios2libstdc++.html
>
> The real solution to this problem involves twisting the arm of Altera
> not to include a version of Cygwin, IMHO.
This whole thing starts to sound like they're in massive breach of the GPL,
isn't it?
cheers,
DaveK
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