From: Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
To: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
Cc: teunis <teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre.com>,
egcs list <egcs@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: linux-2.1.60/i586,glibc-2.0.5c,egcs-971114 snapshot :)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971123173901.6353B-100000@vespucci.advicom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11600.880187759@cygnus.com>
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > > Well, for many you can use the latest newlib release.
> >
> > ???? newlib release ????
> newlib is a ANSI C library. It's what Cygnus uses for most of its cross
> builds. I also believe it's used by RTEMS.
>
> ftp.cygnus.com:pub/newlib
Yes. newlib is the official C Library of RTEMS. AFAIK RTEMS is the only
OS for which that is the case.
> > I don't have immediate access to some of the hardware.....
> > ... and there's no Win32 emulator available... that works.
> Which is why an instruction set simulator is so useful; not I'm not talking
> about hardware, I'm talking about a program that simulates the ISA of a
> particular chip.
psim for the PowerPC and sis for the SPARC ERC32 are both very good
simulators. Both can be viewed as a simple embedded target with a serial
port for console IO and a timer.
> > So how do I build a cross-compiler?
> I really don't have the time to discuss all the aspects of building a
> cross compiler, because doing so also requires additional tools (cross
> assembler, cross linker, cross binutils, target include files, target
> libraries, etc etc).
The best thing to do is read the crossgcc FAQ at
ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/embedded/crossgcc.
Good Luck.
--joel
Joel Sherrill Director of Research & Development
joel@OARcorp.com On-Line Applications Research
Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS Huntsville AL 35805
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-11-23 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-11-14 17:02 teunis
1997-11-16 22:46 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-17 10:23 ` H.J. Lu
1997-11-17 13:18 ` Paul Koning
1997-11-17 14:21 ` teunis
1997-11-18 22:06 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-19 8:46 ` teunis
1997-11-22 0:42 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-23 15:41 ` Joel Sherrill [this message]
1997-11-24 0:32 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-11-27 2:29 ` teunis
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