Re: building a cross compiler

[Pieter Thysebaert <pthyseba@intec.rug.ac.be>]

On 30 Apr 2003, erwan ancel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build the gcc 3.2.3 under linux for Windows Cygwin
> target.
> my configure parameters are:
> ./configure -v --prefix=/usr/cross-compile --target=i386-mingw32
> --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --disable-multilib
>
> when typing make, the xgcc is built, but I got the error:
> checking whether the C compiler (/home/awa/toto/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/xgcc
> -B/home/awa/toto/gcc-3.2.3/gcc/ -B/usr/cross-compile/i386-mingw32/bin/
> -B/usr/cross-compile/i386-mingw32/lib/ -isystem
> /usr/cross-compile/i386-mingw32/include -O2 -g -O2 ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create executables.
> make: *** [configure-target-libiberty] Erreur 1

check the last lines of config.log, it will include the error as reported
by the compiler when attempting to compile a test program.


Have you built cross-binutils AND put them (or rather, the name
of the directory
containing them) in your PATH variable?

BTW you're configuring for mingw, not cygwin .

Pieter