A simple guide to GRUB 1.98 on Cygwin + Cross Compiler

[jbanes]

FYI, the problem appears to have something to do with header sizes being larger than expected. The issue is related to this problem:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub- ... 00342.html

If you manage to get past the build of the "something.module.exe" -> "something.mod" file (screwing up the translation from COFF to ELF along the way), you'll find that you get the Decompressor error mentioned in the linked post.

Do this:

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export TARGET_CFLAGS="-Qn"

...and rebuild from a fresh grub-2.00 source directory. That fixed things up for me. I can't speak to Grub-1.98, but I suspect the problem is the same and thus the same solution should work.