| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
solafidefarms
n00b
Joined: 02 Feb 2006
Posts: 69
|
 Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: Portage on Cygwin? |
 |
|
Is it possible to use portage on cygwin? Or on another distro besides Gentoo?
_________________
Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
Death to Brobdingnagian expressions! On with pulchritude! |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
frostschutz
Advocate
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Posts: 2977
Location: Germany
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:06 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I've compiled stuff for windows in Cygwin before, but many things didn't work out of the box (I had to change Makefiles, sometimes even code, to make things work). So I guess installing a whole distribution inside the Cygwin environment won't be an easy task. If you want to do it and keep it in Windows no matter what, how about using a virtual machine instead? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mark_alec
Bodhisattva
Joined: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 6066
Location: Melbourne, Australia
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Moved from Portage & Programming to Gentoo on Alternative Architectures. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
a7thson
Apprentice
Joined: 08 Apr 2006
Posts: 176
Location: your pineal gland
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
No one has yet mentioned, perhaps this is already known, but there is a HOWTO http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_on_Cygwin which is a work in progress. There was originally a sourceforge project on this too (http://gentoocygwin.sourceforge.net/), which apparently the writer of this HOWTO has brought back from the grave.
Unfortunately cygwin is expected to function in a very different (to be polite) environment, particularly the filesystem which
lacks mounts, loopback, no /dev, no /sys, the fact there is no real equivalent to the linux kernel, /proc is incomplete, filesystem security and permissions differences, lack of an init system, and so forth... don't get this wrong, cygwin itself is quite a feat, but porting ebuilds to such a platform will not be a trivial undertaking but is probably the best shot for now at Gentoo on Windows outside of VM as was suggested.
Personally I'm more interested in cross compiling to cygwin: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-cross.html
| Quote: | | Or on another distro besides Gentoo? |
check the forums, including (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-125553-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html) which is pretty extensive though maybe dated.
_________________
i7-3610QM | E5-2670 | FX-8300 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
GNUtoo
Veteran
Joined: 05 May 2005
Posts: 1919
|
| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: |
|
|
there is also gentoo on SFU and it's worse
mabe you should try coliniux
it worked easely but i have to bugreport somewhere because the keyboard doesn't work in Xming(the gpl and native X server) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
devsk
Advocate
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 3003
Location: Bay Area, CA
|
| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| may be a little late, but does this directory exist in your Xming install: lib/X11/xkb/keymap. What does it contain? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Gentoo on Alternative Architectures
