[yocto] Are Windows SDKs (mingw layer) supposed to work?

[John, Maxin]

Hi,

>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Burton, Ross
>Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:39 PM
>To: Reyna, David L (Wind River) <david.reyna at windriver.com>
>Cc: Yocto <yocto at yoctoproject.org>
>Subject: Re: [yocto] Are Windows SDKs (mingw layer) supposed to work?
>
>Have you tried using 2.4 to identify when it broke?  Clearly we need to extend the selftest so the mingw SDK is actually tested...
>
>Ross
>>
>>On 6 March 2018 at 05:32, Reyna, David <david.reyna at windriver.com> wrote:
>>Hi all,
>> 
>>I am trying to enable a customer for using YP SDKs on Windows. It apparently is supposed to work, but I am unable to get past fatal errors.
>>
>>I have looked for documentation at the YP site and the meta-mingw repo, but to no avail.
>>
>>1) My project is a simple default “qemux86-64” with YP-2.5 HEAD, with the latest “meta-mingw” layer added and <SDKMACHINE ?= "i686-mingw32">.
>> 
>>The SDK builds fine and I get the “*.xz” generated file.
>> 
>>2) However, when I use 7ZIP to extract it on my Windows host (which is recommended for XY files), I get several fatal issues.
>> 
>>  (a) I get more than a hundred errors “Can not create symbolic link: Access is denied”. 
>> 
>>While I do not care about the ones for the bin tools in the sysroot, I do care that most of the cross toolchain EXE files are thusly broken, plus many of the libraries and header files in the sysroot.
>> 
>>Am I missing a step?

Symbolic link errors could be related to the filesystem as FAT has no support for symbolic links. Have you tried it on an NTFS partition?

Best Regards,
Maxin