Re: Solving the grub-pe2elf problem

[Christian Franke]

Robert Millan wrote:
> I thought of a possible solution to the grub-pe2elf problem.  It seems that
> it is burdensome to produce ELF binaries on Windows, but building PE binaries
> or even PE/win32 executables on GNU/Linux is not (thanks to Mingw32 toolchain
> which is available on most distributions).
>
> If building GRUB with "./configure --host=i586-mingw32msvc" works, we could
> include win32 binaries in the upcoming 1.97 release.  Other GNU projects do
> this as well.  Then we could drop support for toolchains that lack ELF.
>
>   

Which binaries would you like to include?
- kernel.img and modules, and/or
- the grub-*.exe  files (Note: mingw32 .exe != cygwin .exe).?

The problem with the PE->ELF conversion affects build of the *.mod 
files, not the build of the *.exe. The linker script is necessary for 
kernel.img.


> Christian and Bean, are you interested in implementing this?
>
>   

No.

Then building a Cygwin package would rely on the existence of (tested or 
untested?) binaries in the a release tarball. Building packages from SVN 
snapshots would no longer be possible.

I really don't want to spent my open-source-time with such kind of 
feature removal :-)


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Regards,
Christian Franke