Build Problem under Cygwin

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:10 -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:

>  The last I checked (about a day ago) cygwin seems to no longer be
> directly "supported" for building RTEMS.
True to some extend. 

It's a "third class" toolchain citizen, not receiving the amount of
attention it would require to label it "supported".

>   My understanding is that there
> weren't enough people willing to help with cygwin
Unfortunately true. I am mostly alone in trying to keep RTEMS for Cygwin
alive.

>  and that if there
> were, then cygwin would be "supported".  See
> http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/DevelopmentHosts for more info.

See also: ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/cygwin/4.9/

Ralf