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Re: Cygwin and mipsel?
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and mipsel?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:27:25 -0400
- Cc: ther00kie at hotmail dot com
- References: <F3r8pkpLkTgbLYluLCT00002a5e@hotmail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:32:51PM +0000, The Rookie wrote:
>I am kind of a rookie in Linux at all (and in cygwin particullary).
>I installed Cygwin under NT 4.0 and it seems to be successful.
>I want to install and run mipsel tools (got them from SGI ftp) under cygwin.
>When I trying to install them (as I did in RH 6.2) using rpm, I getting the
>next error:
>ld-linux.so.2 is needed by binutils-mipsel-linux-2.8.1-1
>libc.so.6 is needed by binutils-mipsel-linux-2.8.1-1
??? You can't install linux RPMs on Cygwin! Cygwin doesn't allow you to
run linux software on Windows. I don't know where you got that
impression but if you want a cross-compiler, you'll have to build one
yourself.
cgf
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