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

[Ballard J. <sac...@ho...>]

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


> --- Ballard Jonathan <sac...@ho...> wrote:
> > It is possible to use only MinGW.  Currently, the source code uses
[...]
>
> 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.

I heavily modified and compiled coLinux sources, headers, and a portion of
the linux system without GCC, cygwin or MinGW.  I used Microsoft Development
Environment (MDE).  I reached a point where some linux sources were
specifically written for GCC style compilers and that made it very tedious.
I didn't have the time to rewrite the sources to be more portable.  I know
it is possible to compile without cygwin.  I think the 2004 version of MDE,
with updates, would make it a bit easier since it includes some of the
recent C standards.  For a less expensive immediate alternative, I suggest
to grab a coLinux binary and use GCC and either cygwin or MinGW.