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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. XP on PowerPC? by marind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "under Cygwin/Windows XP Home Edition and PowerPC."
    This makes no sense. Windows XP ist an OS, PowerPC a processor. It should say: "You can build NetBSD for the i386 or a certain PowerPC Plattform under Windows XP on i386."

  2. whats the point? by dizzy+tunez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What`s the point of /building/ NetBSD on WinXP/cygwin? Its not funny to build systems, the fun is to /install/ them. What the hell should i do with a lot of NetBSD binaries on my Windows system, i cant use netbsd on a fat/ntfs anyways can i?
    Is compiling the best use of our CPU?
    seti@home anyone?

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