Problem compiling Fiasco Kernel (kip.cc)

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 23:43:19 +0100, olivier wrote:
> Adam Lackorzynski a écrit :
> >On Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 00:15:29 +0100, olivier wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>>>try do Makefile.sub2
> >>>>... Generating version information
> >>>>... Making kip.o
> >>>>cczEXyNz.s: Assembler messages:
> >>>>cczEXyNz.s: 117: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized
> >>>>character is ','
> >>>>cczEXyNz.s: 119: 119: unknown pseudo-op: '.previous'
> >>>>etc.
> >>>Anyway, the .previous is the interesting information. This should be
> >>>processed by the assembler. Since this is on Windows maybe the '\n'
> >>>isn't enough and there must be a \n\r or similar. Could you try to add
> >>>the \r in kip.cpp and try again?
> >>No change, I know now problem is in this lines:
> >>
> >>
> >>asm(".section .initkip.version, \"a\", %progbits        \n"    \
> >>   ".string \"" CONFIG_KERNEL_VERSION_STRING "\"       \n"    \
> >>   ".previous                                          \n");
> >>
> >>asm(".section .initkip.features.fini, \"a\", %progbits  \n"    \
> >>   ".string \"\"                                       \n"    \
> >>   ".previous                                          \n");
> >>
> >>
> >>And more exactly start for compiler with the character ','  after
> >>asm(".section .initkip.version, \"a\"
> >
> >Some more digging reveals that those statements are for ELF targets only
> >and do not work with PE targets. Seems there's no way to tell the
> >assembler to generate ELF instead of PE on cygwin. Sorry but it seems
> >building under Cygwin is not possible.
> So is there any way to compil a Windows version?

The easiest is probably to install Linux in a VM.


Adam
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