[coLinux-devel] Getting started building coLinux.

[Clemmitt M. S. <sig...@bl...>]

Hi all,

I've read the building and cygwin-cross-build files in the source
tarball's doc directory in preparation for trying out a build.  But
I have some *really* dumb questions, if anyone would be willing to
answer them:

1.) I couldn't find this in the building file but, if I understand 
correctly, the build system for both the coLinux kernel (vmlinux) and
the OS daemons and support code is i686-pc-linux.  IOW, you build
everything on a running Linux system, not under Windows.  Is this
correct?

2.) Is coLinux self-hosting, that is, can I build coLinux on a
running (and stable) coLinux system?

3.) Is it dumb to ask if it's possible to use MinGW rather than
Cygwin to do builds?  I know about using Cygwin and MinGW on Windows
as a shell and build environment, but I don't have any experience
using them as a build tool platform under Linux.  I do at least see
that w32api from MinGW is being used....

If I have time to work on building, I'll add the info I learn along
the way to the Wiki.  TIA.

					Clemmitt Sigler