Re: problems compiling NTFS on GRUB2

[Marco Gerards]

"lode leroy" <address@hidden> writes:

>>How do you compile and link fs/ntfs.c
>
> I modified i386-pc.mk :%s/minix/ntfs/g

Ok.  But I assume you have to add something in order to link it to the
library?

>>Can you show a backtrace of the crash?
>
> see attached mkimg.log
>
> I noticed that there are some external unresolved link symbols...
> ie. libntfs uses fprintf, calloc, mbrtowc, memcpy etc...

Oh, that sucks.

> I suppose these will need to be defined in ntfs.o
> and libntfs.a is compiled for linux, it will need to be compiled
> for grub2. How do I do this? I suppose --no-stdlib
> and make equivalents for <stdlib.h>, <ctype.h> etc....

Well, in GRUB we have functions like grub_memcpy, etc.

But the best way to implement NTFS is by writing it yourself.  It is
on my todo already, or do you want to do this?  I don't think it is
easy and clean to use libntfs.  Another thing to consider is its size.

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Marco