You know I thought this would be so easy, and maybe it is... I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 on an intel machine and I want to cross compile helloworld.c so that the resulting binary will execute on Ubuntu on a powerpc machine. So something simple like: gcc helloworld.c --target powerpc-linux -o helloworldppc But the answer seems to always come back how to cross compile gcc itself... Anyone have a one liners on how to simply cross compile helloworld.c for ubuntu ppc?