[syslinux] building hpa tftp under cygwin?

[JimVela at aol.com]

Baurjan,

Thank you for your reply.  

> I've got a binary and can send it to you if you want.

Yes, for now the binary may be helpful to me as I figure out how to build the source properly.


> You would probably want to exclude the "-n" option if you run
> the stock version. However, it will most probably fail on set*id
> functions, which require special privileges under cygwin (see the
> section "switching user context" in
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID). IIRC, it was
> possible to use the stock version on cygwin by running it as a user with
> that privileges.


Thank you for the tip.  I will study that in detail.


>For compilation problems, a configure or make log would help. For
>run-time problems, paste the messages from the Windows event log.

OK, I'll gather up the compiler errors this evening and send a proper description of the problem later tonight.

-jav