Re: [Manrix-devel] hello

[Manish R. <reg...@gm...>]

hello sebastian,

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:16:26 -0500, Blues Clues <ce...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> i was wondering about the build requirements.
> can i build this on Win32 using cygwin utilities ? 

for now we have only tried on gcc. 
For win32, you need to change linker script (I think).


> if this is not
> currently supported, maybe that would be something for me to work > on !?

You are most welcome..:-)
 
> After getting the source I tried a quick build, but things error'd
> after a while ( i did not have the time to look into)
> e.g. building the microkernel gave me back
> 
> ld -o kern -Ttext 0x100000 -T i386.ld  ./arch/i386/i386.o ./mm/vmem.o
> ./kernel/kernel.o
> ld: PE operations non PE file.


I think it has something to do with Linker Script. It was made taking
ELF into account.
Do you know how to make it independent of File Format?

Further, there are lot of bugs.
I hope you will be interested in being a part of this project.

> at that point i had to go to work, and did not look further into things...
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sebastian
> 

Regards
Manish