[haiku-development] Re: building under Cygwin (windows)

On 2007-05-30 at 19:53:47 [+0200], Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2007/5/30, Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Have you tried invoking cc manually with an added '-v -save-temps'? 
> > > That should
> > > give you the cmdline used for ld (or collect).
> > > During my own porting efforts, invoking the individual tools manually 
> > > (and
> > > fiddling with their cmdline) often helped me to learn more about any 
> > > such
> > > problems.
> >
> > Thanks, I'll try to do that.
> > Your input is always useful, I'm glad you're still around.
> 
> OOH! renewed interest in Cygwin!?
> 
> I'll set up a new Cygwin environment ASAP and start messing with it again :)
> 
> Last place I got to before I gave up before was that I was able to
> build most of the tools, but they simply did nothing - in other words
> rc would run, but not actually perform any action, and not return any
> error.  Even an attempt to spit back usage from a commandline yielded
> no result.
> 
> IIRC, this caused it ultimately fail on the build of makebootable
> where it was unable to add the resources.

Adding resources won't work out of the box anyway, since the only object 
formats our code supports are PEF and ELF. But since makebootable is also 
able to read the boot code from an attribute, you could enable the same jam 
code conditionally used for Mac OS X.

CU, Ingo

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