I installed the CygWin tool distribution on a Win NT 4 box and can cross-compile to a Motorola target (for my EFI hobby); in theory, I should also be able to build a Debian distribution for an ARM target. Not tried it, though.

It's not that much work to do, but you do need familiarity with the tools and a pretty strong background in the GNU C/C++ compiler. If you are looking for some info on the compiler itself, look at:

Tom Swan's GNU C++ for Linux (Que Books)

- which talks about the use and operation of the compiler itself in isolation from programming and system specific issues. You will need other programming texts for info on programming with Linux as the OS; there are thousands of books on this. As for info on the CygWin toolset - there used to be good info on their website.

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