Subject: Re: Discjuggler based disk works, other questions
To: Andrew Freedman <andrew.freedman@bigpond.com>
From: Gregg C Levine <drwho8@worldnet.att.net>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 09/11/2002 11:48:35
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Hmm. For one thing, ah, I'd be delighted. For another, it is a challenge,
and after doing not much of anything with the Dreamcast all this time, one
I'll enjoy. I'll keep the list aprised.
Gregg C Levine drwho8@worldnet.att.net
"Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phrase.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Freedman" <andrew.freedman@bigpond.com>
To: "Gregg C Levine" <drwho8@worldnet.att.net>; <port-dreamcast@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: Discjuggler based disk works, other questions


> > Now about this one:
> > How do I compile NetBSD/dreamcast under Windows? (top)
> > To build NetBSD/dreamcast under Windows will take a functional Cygwin
> > installation, a working sh4 cross-compiler, the NetBSD code and a
> great deal
> > of patience. More detail will hopefully be made available in the not
> too
> > distant future.
> >
> > Has anyone even attempted that? I don't have a NetBSD/i386 system up
> and
> > running this week, so I'd be needing advice here. I just want to try
> the
> > kernel first.
>
> I'm certain that people have managed to massage gcc and friends into
> building under Cygwin with a dreamcast target, but I'm not certain if
> anybody has managed to build NetBSD/dreamcast using such tools.  When I
> wrote in the "more detail will hopefully" part I was trying to make it
> happen myself, but I couldn't even force gcc to build so I quickly
> abondoned that course (it was mostly in the hope that I could develop a
> canned walkthrough for those that don't have access to anything but a
> Windows box).
>
> However, it /should/ be possible for various values of should.  If you
> succeed then I, for one, would be *very* interested in hearing about it.
>
>