The only significant issue is this: mkyaffsimage supports a whole raft of 
different POSIX file types: hard and symbolic links, pipes, device files etc 
which Windows does not understand. Permissions etc can get a bit mashed too.

-- Charles

On Friday 30 January 2009 15:05:04 Wookey wrote:
> +++ roy basavaraju [2009-01-29 14:54 +0900]:
> >    Hi Charles/all,
> >
> >        Is it possible to build Mkyaffs utils on  visual studio 2005. i
> > mean how difficult it is, if we take mkyaffs linux code and build on
> > VS2005?
> >
> >      Is there any other way around/options available?  my requirement is
> > to build mkyaffs2image utility on VS2005.
>
> Are you trying to build an app to run on a unix/linux target using
> Windows tools, or do you need the target to run on Windows?
>
> If the latter than you could also do this using mingw, which is a tool
> to let you compile Windows targets using gcc (run on a linux machine
> rather than a windows one). That's probably easier than getting it to
> build on VS2005, although as mkyaffsimage is a simple stand-alone C
> program building it with VS2005 shouldn't be particularly hard.
>
>
> Wookey