Re: elkslibc question

Paul Nasrat
2004-03-06T07:28:08Z

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:18:03AM +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, ShadowRage wrote:
>
> > can you take a common app say, like busybox and use it to compile for 8086?
>
> If it is compiled in your Elks toolchain, and it links, yes you can.

> Busybox works with uCLibc, what is forked from the Elks version of it. So
> it is best to try it, and if it won't work, just try to fix it by adding
> the required functions to the application by copy-paste from a working
> Libc source ;-)

Also starting from an older version is probably a good idea. uclibc has grown
a lot from dev86 :)

http://busybox.net/downloads/legacy/

Paul