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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Think like an embedded systems company that wants to take advantage of NetBSD's excellent support for platforms like Hitachi Super-H, StrongArm, MIPS, and embedded PowerPC, but are themselves a Windows shop, and you'll see why this is a win...

    Remember that there are a lot of prototyping and testing tools out there that are currently windows-only, and it's thus a lot easier to sell some of these shops on OSS as a target OS than as a desktop platform...

    This may well change, but we aren't there yet...

  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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