Subject: Re: Cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Dritsas <cgd@sonic.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/03/2003 10:05:51
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:19:20AM -0800, Luke Mewburn wrote:
|
|NetBSD 1.6 was the first release of NetBSD that was enhanced so
|that it can generally be cross-compiled from other operating
|systems, which includes:
|
|    *    older NetBSD releases (NetBSD 1.5, although earlier releases
|    might be supported and if people try them and they fail,
|    send-pr the details and we might be able to fix it).
|
|    *    NetBSD running on other architectures (NetBSD 1.6 was built
|    for 40 platforms on two architectures; an alpha for alpha &
|    sparc64, and an i386 for the rest)
|
|    *    other UNIX variants such as Solaris, Linux
|
|    *    other "POSIX" environments such as Cygwin (this is not
|        functional yet)
|

This was a responce to "Re: updating netbsd"

I would like to know if anyone has any technical information on the 
details of cross-compiling NetBSD 1.6 from Cygwin, what issues may be 
involved to make this functional, and is anyone currently working on this?

-Christos