Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/30/10:44:05
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, bertrand marquis wrote:
> Hello
>
> i.m trying to build the kernel under cygwin with a cross compiler
> (host=cygwin target=i386-linux) and it seems that the kernel need the
> loadkeys program to be build. I have tried to find it but it seems that
> it don't exist.
> Does anyone know a solution for that problem ?
>
> thanks
Yep. It's called "porting". :-)
Seriously, though, looking at the man page for "loadkeys", it doesn't seem
too relevant for Cygwin. In particular, the entry for "--mktable" says:
CREATE KERNEL SOURCE TABLE
If the -m (or --mktable ) option is given loadkeys prints
to the standard output a file that may be used as
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/defkeymap.c, specifying the
default key bindings for a kernel (and does not modify the
current keymap).
Sounds like the kernel is not very cross-compilation friendly (i.e., it's
expected to be compiled *on a Linux machine*). One solution is to create
a "loadkeys" script that accepts only one option ("--mktable") and prints
out pre-defined text... Alternatively, contact the authors of the code
and notify them that their code doesn't build on Cygwin (and probably
won't on OpenBSD, either).
Igor
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