[ros-dev] Help to tester : Build Ros on WIN98 PC

[Alex Ionescu]

Gge wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Buiding Reactos on a Win98  machine does noy work anymore ( at least 
> for me) . It was working several ago.
>
> The make clean fails as well with these error messages :
>
> -----------------------------
> netstat: [CLEAN]
> ping: [CLEAN]
> route: [CLEAN]
> telnet: [CLEAN]
> whois: [CLEAN]
> regtests: [CLEAN]
> tshared: [CLEAN]
> RM]      /include/roscfg.h
> trop de paramètres - buildno.exe
>  ==== Too many parameters
> fichier introuvable
>  === File not found
> trop de paramètres - wine2ros.exe
> trop de paramètres - winebuild.exe
> trop de paramètres - bin2res.exe
> wpp: [CLEAN]
> unicode: [CLEAN]
> C:\Svn\reactos>mingw32-make
> --------------------------------
>
> Anybody may confirm ?

Hi,

Yeah, we kind of broke it on purpose because of a bug in binutils with 
relocation data. Nobody has created an easy solution yet, however using 
Reactos's CMD.EXE in win98 will work and should bypass this problem..

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu