Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

[Christian Franke]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:28:36PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
> > The cygwin distro does not include any cross compilation tools. A
> > package that require tools not in the distro would not be accepted.
> >
> > The package is actually build with native cygwin gcc+binutils.
> >     
>
> Sorry, I got out of context.  What was the problem with providing ELF-capable
> toolchain in cygwin again?
>   

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00233.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00014.html

In fact, something like a i386-linux cross gcc suite would be necessary.


> I think that'd be much better than adding support for PE to GRUB (either native
> or via conversion layers).
>
>   

Yes. But this only better in theory, unless someone maintains such a 
toolchain for the Cygwin distro.

In practice, there now exists a working grub2 package which builds with 
native gcc :-)

Christian