Samuel Robb wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:43 +0200, Claudio Scordino wrote:
Hi all,
I have to compile a Linux kernel using Cygwin on Windows XP (I know, it's a
very silly thing, but it does not depend on me, unfortunately...).
I already have a gcc cross-compile toolchain for my target (arm) installed on
Windows.
I'm going to assume that this is a Cygwin based toolchain. If this is
not the case, then you want to be talking about your build environment
with whoever built your toolchain, not the Cygwin mailing lists.
The toolchain is located in Programs/yagarto/bin/arm-elf-gcc, so I assume that
is not a cygwin toolchain but a Yagarto's one. I'm going to write an email to
Yagarto developers.
Anyway, most of the errors I receive seem not related to the toolchain itself
but to my mistakes using cygwin :(
I already installed gcc-core, gcc-g++, binutils, cpio, make, patch, tar, vim,
gettext, libintl and libncurses on cygwin (do I need something else?).
Did you install these using the Cygwin setup.exe, or did you get them
from some other source? If you try to mix and match, say, mingw or
Microsoft Services For Unix utilities with Cygwin, you're going to run
into problems.
No, I don't want to mix stuff on the PC, otherwise it would be a mess.
I already had "Microsoft Services for Unix" on the PC, but I installed all those
packages using the setup.exe of cygwin.
If necessary, I can remove Microsoft Services for Unix completely...
Since I assume that I need symbolic links, I use an ext2 filesystem on a USB
PenDrive, using the ext2fsd driver for Windows.
You shouldn't need to do this - Cygwin supports symbolic links just
fine.
Oh, very good! What happens if I create a jffs2 filesystem containing sybolic
links made using Cygwin ? Will they be symbolic links also on the Linux target ?
Or cygwin uses an internal represention which differs from the Unix one ?
However, I'm receiving a lot of errors, everywhere.
Some of them:
1) Sometimes when compiling, I receive the error "cannot mv file A to B: invalid
request code".
However, the system allows me to manually copy file A on B and then remove file
A (which is almost the same thing, so I wonder why the mv command does not work).
I suspect this is a symptom of using the ext2fsd and the PenDrive. As I
mentioned, you shouldn't need to do this - Cygwin will handle symbolic
links perfectly well.
Yes, using a managed mount point these errors disappeared :)
For cross-compiling a kernel, though, you may want to use a managed
mount; this will help you avoid some file name case-sensitivity issues
that crop up in the kernel source code (ex, the netfiler code uses file
names that differ only in case). Read up on managed mounts in the the
Cygwin FAQ:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html
Short instructions for using a managed mount
1. Create a new, empty directory:
$ mkdir -p /usr/src/kernel
2. Mount it as a managed directory:
$ mount -o managed c:/cygwin/usr/src/kernel /usr/src/kernel
3. Change into the managed mount directory:
$ cd /usr/src/kernel
4. Extract the kernel source in the managed mount directory:
$ tar -xzf <path-to-kernel-src-archive>
Thank you for the instructions. It's what I'm doing now :)
2) I'm not able of doing a "make menuconfig" even using the host gcc.
The system does not find ncurses libraries. But I've installed them!
IIRC, you'll need to patch menuconfig to build properly under Cygwin...
though the problems that I can remember dealt with libintl, not with
ncurses.
What errors do you see when you do "make menuconfig"?
$ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-elf- HOST_LOADLIBES="-lintl" menuconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:97: error: parse error before "chtype"
I receive errors even if I add -lncurses or -lcurses. Moreover, I couldn't
locate the ncurses libraries on the /lib and /usr/lib directories even if cygwin
says that they are installed...
More general question: did anybody build succesfully a Linux kernel under
cygwin?
I used to work for a company (http://www.timesys.com) that did (and
still does) support cross-compiling Linux under Cygwin. So yes, it is
indeed possible - and, frankly, not all that difficult, either.
Ok, if someone made it, then it is possible, somehow.
Another error: if I put a .config file in the Linux directory and I try to make
the kernel (without 'menuconfig') I receive the following error:
In file included from include/linux/sched.h:4,^M
from arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c:13:^M
include/linux/auxvec.h:4:24: error: asm/auxvec.h: No such file or directory^M
The file exists. It seems a problem related to symbolic links...
Many thanks for your precious help,
Claudio
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