trouble with cygwin

[Mark Wenning]

cygwin ( http://cygwin.com ) is a linux shell /emulator that runs under 
Windows.  It uses standard gcc and ld ,
We thought this would be the easiest way to get our developers going 
with OpenBIOS as a development simulator...
Is anyone out there running OpenBIOS as an application under Windows (XP 
or 2000)?

[Torsten Duwe]

On Monday 24 January 2005 02:58, Mark Wenning wrote:
> cygwin ( http://cygwin.com ) is a linux shell /emulator that runs under
> Windows.  It uses standard gcc and ld ,

We know (I can say at least for Stefan and myself), but gcc+binutils is 
multi-platform and highly configurable. So the question is, how was yours 
configured ? You can get a list by typing "ld --help" and look for the magic 
word "supported" ;) e.g.:
"
ld: supported targets: elf64-x86-64 elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux efi-app-ia32 
elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary 
ihex
ld: supported emulations: elf_x86_64 elf_i386 i386linux
"
check for elf32-i386
> We thought this would be the easiest way to get our developers going
> with OpenBIOS as a development simulator...

Sounds like a plan to me. Do you have any further plans to run it on real 
hardware as well ? After all, that's what this is all about.
> Is anyone out there running OpenBIOS as an application under Windows (XP
> or 2000)?

Certainly not me.

HTH,

Torsten

[Mark W Wenning]

> at least for Stefan and myself), but gcc+binutils is
> multi-platform and highly configurable. So the question is, how was yours
> configured ? You can get a list by typing "ld --help" and look for the

magic
> word "supported" ;) e.g.:
> "
> ld: supported targets: elf64-x86-64 elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux

efi-app-ia32
> elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex

binary
> ihex
> ld: supported emulations: elf_x86_64 elf_i386 i386linux
> "
> check for elf32-i386

Yup.

ld: supported targets: pe-i386 pei-i386 elf32-i386 elf32-little elf32-big
srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex
ld: supported emulations: i386pe
ld: emulation specific options:
i386pe:

I'll try some of your suggestions and see if I can get it going.
> > We thought this would be the easiest way to get our developers going
> > with OpenBIOS as a development simulator...
>
> Sounds like a plan to me. Do you have any further plans to run it on real
> hardware as well ? After all, that's what this is all about.

Absolutely.  Some of my associates (hi Colleen) are going to try to get
this running
on our AIX server this week.

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[Stefan Reinauer]

* Mark Wenning  [050124 02:58]:
> cygwin ( http://cygwin.com ) is a linux shell /emulator that runs under 
> Windows.  It uses standard gcc and ld ,
> We thought this would be the easiest way to get our developers going 
> with OpenBIOS as a development simulator...
> Is anyone out there running OpenBIOS as an application under Windows (XP 
> or 2000)?

You might either enable an ELF-Target in your Cygwin gcc/binutils or you
can just disable the target builds (CONFIG_IMAGE_*). Then you only end
up with the "Unix hosted binary" which should also work fine on
Windows/Cygwin. My Windows underwent some user aided self destruction
recently, but I'll have a look as soon as I get to this.

Stefan