Re: [coLinux-devel] Getting started building coLinux.

[Steven E. <ste...@ya...>]

--- Ballard Jonathan <sac...@ho...> wrote:
> It is possible to use only MinGW.  Currently, the source code uses
> standard
> C (stdlib, stdio, etc) conventions and Microsoft API's only have
> limited
> implementation of such conventions.  Microsoft has an optional
> run-time
> library, installed on demand like cygwin1.dll, that could be used
> intead of
> Cygwin or MinGW but the benefits does not change because an extra
> *.dll file
> was required.  The best option is to rewrite the portions of the
> coLinux
> source to use only the native DDK and PlatformSDK conventions and
> procedures.  I do not see such change as a priority issue at this
> time.  As
> coLinux becomes more secure, I project the rewrite to more native OS
> code to
> happen.  The standard C conventions are easier use at this time --
> especially for those that program with linux more.

You could do it from a Mingw-Cross compiler on Linux. I think one of
our developers was able to build CoLinux using the Mingw linker rather
than linking to Cygwin.

Thanks
Steven


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