# RE: ELDK on windows/cygwin

- From: Kerl, John \<hidden\>
- Date: 2003-02-27 21:14:56 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2003/02/9386896
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2003/02/9386896/t.md

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Cygwin is slow -- in my experience, about 10x - 20x
slower than native Linux on the same hardware.

If you get a CD of your favorite distro and install
it on a spare PC, you'll be up and running in (from
my experience) less than an hour.  Meanwhile, if you'd
started a kernel build (from clean) in Cygwin at the
same time, it would barely be started.

Cygwin is very nice for *small* situations where a
software vendor has some code that runs on Unix,
and wants a quick-and-dirty way to "port" that
software to Windows.  (This is exactly what Xilinx
does with what they call "Xygwin".)

But Cygwin is not a practical way to get any serious
work done.


-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:<redacted>]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:33 PM
To: Prakash kanthi
Cc: <redacted>
Subject: Re: ELDK on windows/cygwin



In message [ref] you wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if ELDK is available for Windows

No, it is not.

> platform (like with cygwin, etc...)? Did anyone try
> using ELDK on windows/cygwin?

We had a few customers asking for it, but it would be a major PITA to
port, and we have zero windoze experience (DENX  is  100%  Microsoft-
free  :-)  and  it  is so much easier to use a Linux server (probably
running Samba to act as windoze file server).


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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