Re: [WAY OT]: need a windows-based PPC cross-compiler

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Daniel Kegel wrote:

> BTW there are known issues building the kernel on cygwin
> and other case-insensitive systems:
> 1. .s and .S source file suffices mean different things; .S needs preprocessing, .s doesn't.
>     This is fixable, but might be a bit painful.
> 2. netfilter has files named foo_BLAH.h and foo_blah.h that represent
>     different states in their state machines.
>     See https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2004-October/017145.html
>     They refuse to change this.
>     If you use netfilter in your kernel, you will run into trouble
>     with cygwin as a dev environment.

You can also try Cygwin's managed mount.  It supports case sensitivity
as well as use of all the reserved words.  E.g. if you had a source file
named con.c, it's impossible to create under win32 normally, but
possible with managed mounts.

Brian

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