On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-09 10:30:57 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> > wrote in message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0310091030110.7086-100000@waterleaf.sonytel.be>: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jørg Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > > > > > Where is a good starting point for a toolchain that will build and work? > > > I would prefere to build it my self because at a later state I might build > > > it under cygwin. But a prebuild does also have interest. > > > > At work we use plain binutils 2.13.2.1 and gcc 3.2.2, which we build ourselves > > (host is Solaris/SPARC). > > Joined trees? Which configury? Unfortunately, toolchain questions are > quite FAQs, but there doesn't really exist _that_ good HOWTOs which > actually contain exactly helpful hints (eg. which versions and/or which > additional patches are needed). > > If companies have some kind of scripts or the like they use, I'd really > love to see them published. That'd really help all those guys out > there:) Binutils (binutils-2.13.2.1.tar.bz2): configure --target=mips-linux --prefix=/wherever/you/want Gcc (gcc-core-3.2.2.tar.bz2): configure --target=mips-linux --prefix=/wherever/you/want --enable-languages=c --enable-shared --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-system-zlib --enable-long-long --enable-nls --without-included-gettext I took the development libraries and includes from Debian: libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.2_mips.deb libc6_2.2.5-11.2_mips.deb zlib1g-dev_1%3a1.1.4-1_mips.deb zlib1g_1%3a1.1.4-1_mips.deb I wrote very simple Perl clones of dpkg and dpkg-deb with just enough functionality to get `dpkg-cross -i' working on Solaris. I don't know whether I can share them, though. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
