Dave Nadler wrote: > A bit of help needed, and much appreciated (Thanks > to Brian and Andrew for clues already provided)... > > Background: > I'm trying to build a cygwin cross-compiler for MIPS. > Why ? Our chip vendor provided a GCC C, but no C++. Right, so you have a C library and all its headers. > I've got a lot of C++ code I'd like to run on the part. > The vendor released per GPL the sources they used. > I'm using 3.4.4 as the build compiler, and the > vendor-provided source for the cross-compiler is also > 3.4.4-based. > > Other background: > In decades past I have written compilers, and I have > adapted another C++ compiler to run bare-metal and > later on an embedded OS I wrote. Thus the low-level > concepts are all very familiar, but I'm just starting > to learn about GCC. > > So far: > I have, despite a snarl of dependency traps, stuff > not distributed via cygwin (or distributed non-working) > and guile-less... never mind. So far, I have built a > cross-compiler that compiles C++ OK, and for trivial > test classes runs C++ on my target hardware. I've included > the configure parameters below (provided by the vendor > and mostly matching that reported by gcc -v, which is > also reported below as requested by Andrew). > > I'm confused about the supporting libraries. > > I hoped (OK, wished) that "make" would create a ready- > to-package cross-compiler including: > - executables (OK so far) > - set of libraries for the target (built by running the > newly-built cross-compiler) > - the set of include files required for the selected > language targets > I hoped that the includes/libraries would implement > C and C++ as possible bare-metal. That is, minus file > IO etc. or with harmless stubs to be replaced later > as needed. The vendor has the bare metal adaption for > malloc-level utilities in libgcc. > > While I did get a complete set of executables from > the make, I didn't get libgcc, libstdc++, nor did I get > the include files. What am I missing here ? I have no idea. If I had access to your build tree I'd have a look. The output of configure will tell you if libstdc++ is being built. Give us that output. Did you do "make install"? What did you get? Andrew.
