09/11/2012 10:25, Kai Ruottu: > 9.11.2012 10:23, Oleg Endo kirjoitti: >> On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 23:31 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:38 AM, Aurelien Buhrig >>> <aurelien.buhrig.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I successfully build a canadian croos gcc for a private target on a >>>> linux x64 build machine for a windows host (mingw32). >>>> >>>> I suppose I can test such a compiler on the host machine (setting up >>>> dejagnu/expect, a site.exp and the target simulator (sid) on the >>>> windows >>>> host). > > I don't know what the situation with tcl/tk/itcl/itk etc and MinGW is > nowadays but it > used to be quite unsupported, the Cygwin alternative as a more Unix-like > platform being > the people's choice (?). When experimenting with GDB/Insights for the > MinGW host the > FSF sources related to tcl/tk/itcl/itk/tix etc required quite a lot > fixes in order to be built. > I too used Linux as the build system for MinGW hosted binutils, GCCs and > GDB/Insights, > the Linux host being the primary runtime host and Windoze/MinGW one of > the secondary > hosts. > I succeed in building tcl/tk within binutils sources under windows (cygwin) by replacing the default version of tcl/tk with the last one from sourceforge. BTW, I wonder why FSF tcl source is not up-to-date in binutils sources, but this is out of topic here. License issue ? >>>> But in order to centralize on a single machine the build and the >>>> test of >>>> binary releases for different hosts, I wonder if there is a way to test >>>> such a compiler on (or from) the build machine, using an emulator, a >>>> RPC-like or whatever. >>>> Perhaps this is an issue someone has already addressed hereby? >>> I believe the GCC testsuite has this facility, but frankly I do not >>> know how to use it. You can tell DejaGNU to run programs remotely. >>> > > I haven't seen any docs about this succeeding :-( What I remember > being discussed > was about making apps as X11-apps/X11-clients running on Windoze/MinGW > so that > one could control their keyboard, mouse etc. via a X11-server running on > Linux. That > was claimed to be "impossible" because of some restrictions in > Windoze... This could > be expected because also tcl/tk/itcl/itk/tix etc run on the Win32 API, > not via X11 as on > the Unix-like hosts. The situation may have become worse, I used to try > VNC sometimes > to look other desktops in the LAN but with Vista (I think), the free-VNC > stopped to work. It seems too complicated for my use... > Generally controlling remote desktops a'la VNC could be the way for > running the tests > remotely on Windoze/MinGW and using a virtual PC with a booted Windoze > on a Linux > system like 'https://www.virtualbox.org/' for running the tests on the > build machine... >> Dan Kegel has a description on his page: >> http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/dejagnu-remote-howto.html > > This seems to talk only about the normal cross case but if remote > desktops and virtual > PCs will cater the Canadian cross case then this is enough... I think I need to properly setup the testsuite on the cygwin computer first (running native mingw32 toolchain). Thanks, Aurélien
