On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:33:23AM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Understood.
> > What are the other options?
>
> I don't know.
>
> Waiting until someone fixes BFD or maintains a Linux cross-compiler
> package for Cygwin
I don't understand what you mean about a "Linux cross-compiler":
- Why a compiler? AFAICT, the problem here is assembly/linkage
rather than compiling. binutils should suffice.
- It's not really "Linux", just generic ELF support (i.e.
i386-pc-elf rather than i386-pc-linux-gnu).
- It's not exactly "cross". I think something like
--enable-targets=i386-pc-elf when building binutils should
work just fine. This produces an "ld" that understands multiple
formats (-m switch). Have you tried this?
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