Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:06:46PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > > > Since ~r1584, util/grub-* could be build and run on Cygwin. Commit > > r1726 added support to build kernel and modules on Cygwin. > > > > There has to be more to it. I know you were using GRUB on Cygwin > before that commit. Was this kludge being used since the beginning?
I'm using GRUB on Cygwin since 'somewhat' before I announced the first patch 2007-10-16: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-10/msg00071.html This version used the hack in grub's ELF-loader already discussed. It also contained some non Cygwin related fixes found during testing. The grub2 package in the Cygwin distro from 2008-03-30 was based on this private branch merged to 1.96+epsilon. > What are the other options? > I don't know. Waiting until someone fixes BFD or maintains a Linux cross-compiler package for Cygwin (which cannot be build OOTB, it requires build steps on Linux) may last until time_t wraps around and is IMO not an option :-) Even the isolation of grub-pe2elf in a separate package would not help much, because the linker script and some support in the build system would be still needed in the grub2 tree. -- Regards, Christian Franke _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
