I was just wondering if anybody in the group has been able to compile the Linux kernel using the Sourcery G++ Lite toolchain on a Windows machine.
At the first attempt I encountered an error saying " ‘uname’ : unrecognized command", to overcome this issue I installed Cygwin, but now I am still unable to compile, now I see a error saying ‘Makefile:1045: Multiple Target Patterns. Stop’.
I am pretty comfortable with Linux environment but not a makefile expert. However I did spend some time trying to understand the error. It seems that the ‘make’ utility does not like extra ‘:’ which might get introduced when you are using windows paths (like D:/BeagleBoard/xyz). I am currently using GNU make 3.81.
Is anybody aware of other Windows Make utility which can address this issue, i.e. ignore the ‘:’ in the Windows Path?
Måns Rullgård said the following on 12/17/2008 05:50 AM:
Ashwin Athani wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering if anybody in the group has been able to compile the
Linux kernel using the Sourcery G++ Lite toolchain on a Windows machine.
Installing Linux is much easier.
vmware running ubuntu over windows is also an option -> I think this was
discussed in this very mailing list[1],[2] (Google is pretty good at
searching it's own mail archives ) etc..
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
Nishanth Menon said the following on 12/17/2008 05:58 AM:
Måns Rullgård said the following on 12/17/2008 05:50 AM:
Ashwin Athani wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering if anybody in the group has been able to compile the
Linux kernel using the Sourcery G++ Lite toolchain on a Windows machine.
Installing Linux is much easier.
vmware running ubuntu over windows is also an option -> I think this was
discussed in this very mailing list[1],[2] (Google is pretty good at
searching it's own mail archives ) etc..
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
apologies on the spam, but then google is a pretty neat too: [1]
[2](this has the same pointers you need Ashwin):
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
Thanks Nishanth for the links, I seem to have had a look at them already. A similar problem was reported but I don’t think it was reported to be resolved. It certainly seems like I need to explore the option of installing linux on my machine. But having spent some time on this I really want to resolve this issue and see the kernel compiling on a Windows machine.
) etc..