Hi Amit, Please read http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ and you will be on your way. Mumit Khan's cygwin-to-linux page gives you a very nice intro. http://walden.mvp.net/~chandra/cygwin-to-linux-cross-howto.txt. Read it substituting your host and target. You should also read http://gcc.gnu.org/install/ carefully. HTH Ram -----Original Message----- From: Amit Rai [mailto:amit.rai.popli@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:59 PM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: WELCOME to gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx hi all im trying to build a cross cmpiler on i686-linux targetting i386-elf. i am fairly new to this field.can anyone guide me please. thank you amit