Re: [PATCH] Build on Cygwin

[Robert Millan]

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?

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Robert Millan

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