Re: [PATCH] Build on Cygwin

[Christian Franke]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:31:37PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
> > This patch enables build on Cygwin. It handles the issues introduced by 
> > the non-ELF object format.
> >
> > A linker script replaces the unsupported -N option. PE modules are 
> > converted to ELF. ELF-only assembly language features are removed.
> >
> > Please note that this patch produces a conflict in genmk.rb unless the 
> > "Handle C symbols with leading underscore" is applied first.
> >
> > This is the last patch derived from "[PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin".
> >     
>
> I don't recall which thread this is, but I think the last time we discussed
> this the conclussion was that the simplest solution was to enable a build
> option in binutils to obtain ELF support?
>
>   

Due to limitations and requirements of bfd (no relocation conversion 
support), gas (no multiple object format support) and gcc (creates 
object format dependent assembly output), a complete (cross-)compiler 
toolchain would be necessary.

See "Building GRUB on platforms without ELF support".

Christian