[bug] elf.h incomplete

marco atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Thu May 3 14:05:00 GMT 2012


On 5/3/2012 3:59 PM, Fedin Pavel wrote:
> On 03.05.2012 17:34, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> I've also run in to this problem, though in my case I just fired up a
>> VM to work around it... I needed the VM anyway to actually run the
>> newly-built kernel. That said, it would be nice to be able to build on
>> the host and just scp the new vmlinuz across...
>
> I found using VM too uncomfortable and limiting, this is why i switched
> to Cygwin. I have real ARM HW here to actually run the built code. And
> Cygwin NFS server helps a lot with this.
>
>> BTW, libelf.h has all the #defines, but it only #includes them if it
>> doesn't find an elf.h, which Cygwin has.
>
> There's Cygwin package. But i checked it, it doesn't have reloc
> definitions either. So:
> a) Not an option anyway.
> b) Completing system-wide elf.h would solve all problems at once, and
> increase compatibility. Anyway Cygwin's aim is to be as close to UNIX
> environment as possible, to make things working out of the box. Or am i
> wrong here ?
>

as usual
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

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