[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot on Windows (Ramy Mamdouh)

[Tim Braun]

> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:10:58 +0200
> From: "Ramy Mamdouh" <rmamdouh.ese at gmail.com>
> Subject: [U-Boot-Users] U-Boot on Windows
>
> Dear all
> 
> I need to make U-Boot on Windows, is that possible? and if yes how can
I do
> that?

Building U-Boot on Windows is done every day.  You install the cygwin
tools,
get yourself a cross-compiler, and you may have to tweak a few Makefiles
for .exe
executable suffixes (for the tools which are built). 

The uclibc people have reasonable build scripts for cross-compilers.
You can get
an ARM cross-compiler from a few places.   I built the MIPSEL
cross-compiler we use
from the uclibc scripts.

http://buildroot.uclibc.org/

There's extra info building just the tool-chain:

http://buildroot.uclibc.org/buildroot.html#toolchain_standalone

Since u-boot doesn't use libc, you can also not use uclibc... which is
to say that
a uclibc based toolchain isn't a problem for building u-boot.


Tim Braun, Sr. Des. Eng.
LibreStream Technologies
http://www.librestream.com
895 Waverley St., Suite 110, Winnipeg, MB  R3T 5P4