Re: Cygwin and mipsel?

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 11:32 AM 7/23/2001, The Rookie wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am kind of a rookie in Linux at all (and in cygwin particullary).
>I installed Cygwin under NT 4.0 and it seems to be successful.
>I want to install and run mipsel tools (got them from SGI ftp) under cygwin.
>When I trying to install them (as I did in RH 6.2) using rpm, I getting the next error:
>ld-linux.so.2 is needed by binutils-mipsel-linux-2.8.1-1
>libc.so.6 is needed by binutils-mipsel-linux-2.8.1-1
>
>I downloaded libc rpms for RH 6.2 (and 7.0 and 5.x, also) but it doesn't want to install them
>It is seems that these libraries require only the Red Hat environment and not cygwin.
>
>Questions:
>1. Is there any how-to guide for mipsel on cygwin installation?


Not that I'm aware of.


>2. How could I install mipsel tools on cygwin?


Find a pre-compiled binary for Cygwin or build one yourself from the 
source.


>3. Where could I find cygwin-related forum for novices like me?


www.cygwin.com and this email list is the closest you'll find I guess.
Check out the documentation at the web site to get yourself acquainted
with Cygwin, what it does, and what it doesn't.

Enjoy! :-)




Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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