On 26 June 2013 16:57, Burning Thumb wrote: > 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? You need a cross compiler. The target is fixed when GCC is built, so you cannot use a GCC built for the intel target to build binaries for the powerpc target.
