Re: FYI: vmware + oskit

To: Ramon van Handel <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>
Subject: Re: FYI: vmware + oskit
From: Tom Burdick <bd991@scn.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 21:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
cc: Geoff Humphreys <xsaber0@hotmail.com>, oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
In-Reply-To: <3800DA0C.4E691E5C@chem.vu.nl>
Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

> > It would probably be possible with either Djgpp or 
> > Cygwin.  You might have
> > to grab the sources for gcc, binutils, etc and 
> > recompile them under NT
> > before they would compile OSKit though.
> > 
> > I am going to attempt it and report back on the \
> > results.
> 
> You'll probably need to add some code to the
> OSKit for that, because neither of those produce
> ELF binaries.  DJGPP produces COFF, and I 
> *think* cygwin produces MZ (?) binaries.

gcc is supposed to be fairly easy to make as a cross-compiler, so using
the cygwin or mingwin32 ports of gcc, it should be pretty easy to make a
gcc that is a win32 executable but produces ELF output.

Tom

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Re: FYI: vmware + oskit

From: Ramon van Handel <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>