From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 16 16:48:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B71137B414 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19769 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2002 23:46:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 16 Jun 2002 23:46:55 -0000 Received: (from roman@localhost) by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5GNp9J06000; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 01:51:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: freepuppy.bellavista.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@bellavista.cz using -f Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 01:51:09 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Corey Snow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A (probably stupid) question Message-ID: <20020616235109.GT64435@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Corey Snow , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3D0C90A9.3100.E085889@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D0C90A9.3100.E085889@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Corey Snow" > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:20:41 -0700 > Subject: A (probably stupid) question > Is it possible to build a FreeBSD installation or kernel on another > operating system and/or platform? For example, could I use my WinXP > box and Cygwin to build a FreeBSD kernel? If I could, I wouldn't have > to install FreeBSD as a secondary OS on my only really speedy box > that isn't dedicated to something else, just so I can build updates > or new kernels for my firewall boxen. it should be possible provided a cross-compiler exists for the platform you want to build the binaries on. I'm not sure if the cygwin gcc port is able to cross-compile, but you can try. but I suspect it'd be *far* more trouble than it's worth. all you need is a very minimal FreeBSD setup after all. -- FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 1:47AM up 13 days, 15:36, 8 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message