Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:27:25 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: ther00kie@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Cygwin and mipsel? Message-ID: <20010723122725.E1855@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, ther00kie@hotmail.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from ther00kie@hotmail.com on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:32:51PM +0000 On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:32:51PM +0000, The Rookie wrote: >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 ??? You can't install linux RPMs on Cygwin! Cygwin doesn't allow you to run linux software on Windows. I don't know where you got that impression but if you want a cross-compiler, you'll have to build one yourself. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/