Re: gcc on arm

Re: gcc on arm

[Simmerdeep Singh]

dear all,

i have just started working on gcc on sun solaris, every time i try to 
compile my code a file not found error comes for every header file i 
include in my source code.


will any one help me how it can be removed and why is it comming.


best regards,
simmer.


----- Original Message -----
From: andy@softbook.com
Date: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:41 am
Subject: gcc on arm

> Last time I checked ( September) arm was not on the list of 
> architectures supported by gcc 3
> I checked again today ( gcc 3.0.2) and arm is nowhere to be found
> Can someone kindly explain what the heck is going on with gcc on 
> arm ?
> Or point me to the right source of info ? I'm particularly 
> interested in building a gcc arm cross-compiler
> ( under cygwin or i386 linux)
> TIA
> Andy
> 
> 
> 

Re: gcc on arm

[Yves Rutschle]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:05:49AM +0500, Simmerdeep Singh wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> i have just started working on gcc on sun solaris, every time i try to 
> compile my code a file not found error comes for every header file i 
> include in my source code.

That question doesn't match your subject line.

Maybe you tried to install gcc in a path different than that
you gave to configure with --prefix=?

/Y

gcc on arm

[andy]

Sorry I didn't make myself clear
I need to build a gcc cross-compiler for arm-elf target hosted on an i386 linux ( redhat) or cygwin. I had some problems  building my code with the initial gcc 3.0 release so I put it away for a while and continued my development with gcc 2.95.3 . Now I'd like  to get back in sync with the current version of gcc, hoping that enough time passed, and the bugs in the initial release have been fixed.
I checked this page: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/buildstat.html and didnt find arm there so I decided to ask. However, the fact that there's no mention of arm on that page suggests that the owners of netwinder linux  boxes are stuck with gcc 2.95.2/3. Is that the case ?

thanks  for prompt responses
Andy

Re: gcc on arm

[Kai Ruottu]

andy@softbook.com wrote:
> 
> Last time I checked ( September) arm was not on the list of architectures supported by gcc 3
> I checked again today ( gcc 3.0.2) and arm is nowhere to be found
> Can someone kindly explain what the heck is going on with gcc on arm ?

 ARM what?  There are many 'arm-something' targets, some are broken some are not...

 The 'arm-elf', 'arm-coff' and 'arm-linux-gnu' should work, but 'arm-wince', 'arm-epoc-pe',
'arm-netbsd' etc. may have difficulties...  Knowing how important the ARM/EPOC target is
(the 'Windows' of the mobile-phones now...), it is really weird how few messages talk about
producing an up-to-date GCC for the target, or has someone seen at least one ?  Anyway this
'most important' target seems to be currently broken and one must be content with the pre-
built SDKs from Symbian with gcc-2.7.2 or something from 1996... (www.epocworld.com)

 So you MUST talk about this target, just as one means Windows when talking only about "GCC
for Pentium" or "GCC for PC"... But mentioning the complete target name is always polite,
although almost all the mobile phones and all the PDAs now use ARM, and the mobile phones
with EPOC as the opsys are the majority... But perhaps a person coming from the Windows-world
knows only the ARMs using the WinCE or PocketPC, and the 'arm-wince' support is also more
than questionable in the GCC sources...

> Or point me to the right source of info ? I'm particularly interested in building a gcc arm
> cross-compiler ( under cygwin or i386 linux)

 If you have Linux available, use it as the build system also for the Cygwin-tools, and you
need not to scratch your head with all the problems coming from the weird Cygwin build-system...

 1. Build a Linux-x-Cygwin cross-toolchain, or download it from somewhere...

 2. Build your 'arm-something' toolchain first for the Linux host (in order to get the
    arm-something tools for compiling the target libs on the build host)

 3. Build your 'arm-something' toolchain for the Cygwin host on the Linux build host
      --build=i686-linux --host=i686-cygwin --target=arm-something

Cheers, Kai

gcc on arm

[andy]

Last time I checked ( September) arm was not on the list of architectures supported by gcc 3
I checked again today ( gcc 3.0.2) and arm is nowhere to be found
Can someone kindly explain what the heck is going on with gcc on arm ?
Or point me to the right source of info ? I'm particularly interested in building a gcc arm cross-compiler
( under cygwin or i386 linux)
TIA
Andy