My cookbook approach to building a cross compiler for the powerpc on an intel x86 Linux box

My cookbook approach to building a cross compiler for the powerpc on an intel x86 Linux box

[Dan Dickey]

Ok; I originally wrote this in HTML - but the list doesn't accept
attachments.  So, here is how it looks as text; sorry for the
poor formatting.  Consider it a work in progress.  :)
	-Dan




Other documents referenced:

   * http://members.home.com/mmporter/linux/cross/  (less useful)
   * http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/  (more useful)

 
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Binutils
Originally retrieved from ftp.cygnus.com - but that seems to be a fairly
"old"
version in terms of the PowerPC world.  Downloaded binutils-2.9.1.0.19a
from

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/tsx-11/packages/GCC/binutils-2.9.1.0.19a.tar.gz

and built and installed it.  Went on to GCC-2.95.2; but it insists that
a
newer
version of binutils is needed.  Referred to binutils-2.9.4.0.8 or newer.
Downloaded
ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils/binutils-2.9.5.0.22.tar.bz2

and will build and install it.

$ cd /usr/local/src
$ bunzip2 -c binutils-2.9.5.0.22.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
$ cd /usr/local/ppc
$ mkdir build-binutils-2.9.5.0.22
$ cd build-binutils-2.9.5.0.22
$ ../../src/binutils-2.9.5.0.22/configure --target=powerpc-eabi
--prefix=/usr/local/ppc -v
$ make all
$ make install

 
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Newlib - part 1


$ cd /usr/local/src
$ tar zxf newlib-1.8.2.tar.gz

 
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GCC
Using the latest version of egcs (now GCC) - version 2.95.2 as retrieved
using
anonymous cvs.


$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/ppc/bin
$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/gcc
$ cvs login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com)
CVS password: anoncvs
$ cd /usr/local/src
$ cvs -z 9 co -rgcc-2_95-branch egcs
$ cd egcs
$ ln -s ../newlib-1.8.2/newlib .
$ ln -s ../newlib-1.8.2/libgloss .
$ cd /usr/local/ppc
$ mkdir build-gcc-2.95.2
$ cd build-gcc-2.95.2
$ ../../src/egcs/configure --target=powerpc-eabi --with-cpu=860 \
--with-newlib --enable-languages=c++ --prefix=/usr/local/ppc -v
$ make all
$ make install

 
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Newlib - part 2


$ cd /usr/local/ppc
$ mkdir build-newlib-1.8.2
$ cd build-newlib-1.8.2
$ ../../src/newlib-1.8.2/configure --target=powerpc-eabi
--prefix=/usr/local/ppc -v
$ make all
$ make install

 
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Glibc
 
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Bootloader
 
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Kernel
 
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Re: My cookbook approach to building a cross compiler for the powerpc on an intel x86 Linux box

[Grant Erickson]

Also, consider the documentation at:

     http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~grant/Linux/cross.html

Regards,

Grant Erickson

On 1/9/2000 6:23 PM, Dan Dickey wrote:
>Ok; I originally wrote this in HTML - but the list doesn't accept
>attachments.  So, here is how it looks as text; sorry for the
>poor formatting.  Consider it a work in progress.  :)
>	-Dan
>
>Other documents referenced:
>
>   * http://members.home.com/mmporter/linux/cross/  (less useful)
>   * http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/  (more useful)


 Grant Erickson                       University of Minnesota Alumni
  o mail:grant@borg.umn.edu                               1996 BSEE
  o http://www.tc.umn.edu/~erick205                       1998 MSEE


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Re: My cookbook approach to building a cross compiler for the powerpc on an intel x86 Linux box

[Dan Dickey]

Grant Erickson wrote:
> 
> Also, consider the documentation at:
> 
>      http://www.lcse.umn.edu/~grant/Linux/cross.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Grant Erickson

Grant,
thanks for the pointer!
This is fantastic!  I believe that it would have saved me at least
an hour last Saturday had I known about your page.  Ah well.

It looks like your page is a good reference for building
a "straight" cross-compiler environment.  Building applications
based on glibc that will actually run on the target machine with
Linux as the OS.
What I was trying to do to begin with was a bit simpler - just
build a cross environment to allow code to run on one of the
PPC boards that are available.  No OS yet, certainly not glibc.

What I imagined is having one environment for building the
"simple" environment, and a later one for actually building
the applications to run on Linux with glibc.
	-Dan

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