Dominic Sweetman writes: > > We are also developing a compiler from the same source tree, but > configured for Linux. That was the compiler we'll be looking for > beta-testers for in the next couple of months. > > If you want to be able to build MIPS16 applications and then run them > on Linux, this is more challenging. You have to build everything > static: then it works mostly, and some people at MIPS have built and > run some programs. I have built glibc in a static and non-PIC version to allow linking against M16 user apps (non-PIC required because current Linux compilers cannot generate M16 PIC code). It worked fine using the Algo 5.0 Beta for Linux. I successfully built a few applications (ones which only required libc). It won't be really useful until somebody builds a complete library set which is static and non-PIC, or PIC support gets included in the M16 code generator. /Hartvig
