Important:
Due to changes in portage-cygwin no package can be installed at the moment. add KEYWORDS="cygwin" to any ebuild you want to test / install.A reduced portage tree with fixed ebuilds is work in progress.
To use standard linux-packages change ARCH="cygwin" to ARCH="x86" in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
We apologize for any inconveniene.
Right now there is only this small Howto available. It's basically a collection of steps I did to get Portage working. They should lead to a "working" installation of portage. If you find any omissions, errors or bugs feel free to contact me (gentoo at toso-digitals dot de)
Prerequisites
- Any Version of Windows(NT based). 2000 preferred. 9x unsupported
- Cygwin base installation
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- +automake/autoconf
- +gcc
- +make
- +python
- +rsync
- +wget
- recommended: an editor (nano,vi,mc)
- (cygwin complete install [~200MB] recommended for testing)
- portage-cygwin
some hints for the cygwin installation
Warning:
The necessary downloads are quite large.
cygwin: 25-250MB
emerge sync: ~100MB
gentoo packages: 50-1000MB
You have been warned. :-)
I hope this is complete - if you find any missing dependencies, please let me know This is still evolving, so please check for updates if you have problems during installation.
Step-by-Step installation:
- workaround: start cygwin once and exit so that the /home directory gets created
- download and extract portage-cygwin, preferably to the cygwin "home" directory
- start cygwin. The rest of the instructions should be done inside the cygwin bash shell.
- cd {portage-cygwin} (where {portage-cygwin} is the directory whereto you extracted the .zip file
- ./portage-install.sh
- (optional)edit /etc/make.conf: add line "SYNC="rsync://your.nearest.rsync.server.org/gentoo-portage/" (Please look at the official Gentoo documentation for precise information)
- emerge sync
- emerge -i sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.8
- emerge -i sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1
- download ebuilds and extract to /usr/portage-cyg
- emerge system
Right now almost no programs have functional ebuilds. Any contributions are appreciated. Since merge seems to be working testing may begin.
A script for building ebuilds from cygwin-packages is available. It should work, but it's not yet well documented :-(
If you see an "I am confused" error, that's an incomplete patch. It'll be removed soon, don't worry.
The install-script is quite new and untested. Go find some bugs :-)
emerge system does not (yet) complete. Any updated ebuilds will be posted. Every bit of help is appreciated.
New experimental functionality: ARCH="cygwin" in /etc/make.profile/. This breaks all ebuilds without KEYWORD="cygwin".
At the moment ebuild digest generation has some weird problems. Hmmm.
Limitations:
- emerge unmerge does not work reliable
- glibc is not available in cygwin, but most programs depend on it.
- if some packages have been merged, emerge -e system will not complete since it tries to use unmerge functionality.
I hope this outline is good enough, it is not yet complete and has not yet been extensively tested
For /etc/passwd and user managment, please read:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
Many packages in "emerge system" don't work (yet). Any feedback is welcome, but we will need a centralized ebuild repository since many packages would compile if the ebuilds didn't assume Linux-specific dependencies.
Patrick Lauer - bonsaikitten at web dot de