Hi, I think it is enough to put the mipsel assembler instead of the the 'as' which you already have. Because the mipsel-g++ seems to be using the real (the one which you already had) 'as' instead of the mipsel as. Try it Regards KK On Friday 20 September 2002 10:05 am, Vishal wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to install the cross compiler for the MIPSEL arch on my > i386 machine. > i downloaded the 2 required tar's and did the following > tar -zxvf mipsel-linux-gcc.2.7.2-3.tar.gz > tar -zxvf mipsel-linux-binutils.2.7-3.tar.gz > ///these two install the precompiled binaries and library files...... > > [root@vishal cross_compilers]# ls > /usr/local/bin/ > //mipsel-linux-g++ figures in this directory...... cpp > mipsel-linux-gasp > mips-linux-ar mips-linux-protoize > gcjh mipsel-linux-gcj > mips-linux-as mips-linux-ranlib > gcov mipsel-linux-ld > mips-linux-c++ mips-linux-readelf > jcf-dump mipsel-linux-nm > mips-linux-c++filt mips-linux-size > jv-scan mipsel-linux-objcopy > mips-linux-chill mips-linux-strings > licq mipsel-linux-objdump > mips-linux-g++ mips-linux-strip > mipsel-linux-addr2line mipsel-linux-protoize > mips-linux-g77 mips-linux-unprotoize > mipsel-linux-ar mipsel-linux-ranlib > mips-linux-gasp viewurl-lynx.sh > mipsel-linux-as mipsel-linux-readelf > mips-linux-gcc viewurl-ncftp.sh > mipsel-linux-c++ mipsel-linux-size > mips-linux-gcj viewurl-netscape.sh > mipsel-linux-c++filt mipsel-linux-strings > mips-linux-ld viewurl-w3m.sh > mipsel-linux-chill mipsel-linux-strip mips-linux-nm > mipsel-linux-g++ mipsel-linux-unprotoize mips-linux-objcopy > mipsel-linux-g77 mips-linux-addr2line mips-linux-objdump > > [root@vishal cross_compilers]# mipsel-linux-g++ hello.c //error!!! > as: unrecognized option `-PIC' > > however if i do....... > [root@vishal cross_compilers]#mipsel-linux-g++ -S hello.c > //a hello.S assembly lang file obtained....... hello.s > [root@vishal cross_compilers]#mipsel-linux-as hello.s -o hello > [root@vishal cross_compilers]#ls > hello > [root@vishal cross_compilers]#file hello > hello: ELF 32-bit MSB mips-1 relocatable, MIPS R3000_BE, version 1 > (SYSV), not stripped > > boils down to a problem with the assembler being used i guess.....anyone > knows what can be done to get rid of this?????? > > regards, > Vishal. > > > > > > > ÿØÿà -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
