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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:20:29PM +0200, Bosko Radivojevic wrote:
>From my perspective it looks like a cygwin "problem". Sorry if I'm not righ.
>
>Probably sys/types.h in cygwin and Linux are not the same, something
>that is defined in linux/types.h in linux is also defined in
>cygwin/types.h, etc. I can probably copy /usr/include from my Linux on
>the Cygwin host, and probably I will be able to cross-compile kernel,
>except the things that should be compiled for the host (cygwin in my
>case).
>
>Any comments?

You have a lot of "probably"s above which seem like they would be fairly
easy to corroborate.  Why don't you actually check the details that you
mention rather than relying on people where who have already admitted to
knowing little about this subject?

cgf

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