Building and Testing a Canadian Cross-Compiler

[Rempel, Cynthia]

>________________________________________
>From: Chris Johns [chrisj at rtems.org]
>Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 6:53 PM
>To: Rempel, Cynthia
>Cc: Sebastian Huber; rtems-devel at rtems.org; dufault at hda.com
>Subject: Re: Building and Testing a Canadian Cross-Compiler

>Rempel, Cynthia wrote:
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>> I am curious now, if neither minGW nor Cygwin are needed for RTEMS except for the auto-tools, would it be feasible to automatically generate daily (or weekly) snap-shots that are already boot-strapped? And if so, what else would be required to get the RTEMS tool-set working for Windows users without Cygwin or minGW?
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>Shell support is needed to run 'configure' to build RTEMS.

>Chris

For an open project related to native Windows support would using a configure.bat be useful? I found this online.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/emacs/emacs-59/emacs/nt/configure.bat

Thanks,
Cindy