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Building NetBSD Under Cygwin on Windows XP, PPC

Posted by timothy on from the even-more-ubiquity dept.

Dan writes "John Gordon has completed a set of changes to the NetBSD build infrastructure that allows him to build at least two architectures (i386 and ibmnws platform, a PowerPC box) under Cygwin/Windows XP Home Edition and PowerPC. He has made a CVS patch for Cygwin, and provides instructions on the required configuration of Cygwin to avoid a problem with directory name clashes due to the case insensitive file system on Windows."

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  1. Re:Why? by vesamies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One reason I can think of is that, if you have fast Windows XP box and some weird machine running NetBSD which is not so fast, then using the latest and greatest sometimes requires compiling... Another reason is that in principle NetBSD should compile on any POSIX platform, I was not enough brave to dig into details why this was not possible earlier...

  2. Re:Why? by wolrahnaes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Next time you want to ask that question, remember: This is slashdot. We do things because we can. In this case, as some of the other replies have pointed out, there are some practical uses. One that hasn't been pointed out is building under cygwin to run under bochs. Just because you wouldn't do it doesn't mean someone else can't.

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