EABI

EABI

[Brian Silverman]

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Is it possible to compile a Linux application using an EABI compiler
(specfically, Xilinx's EDK powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe)?
 
The issue at hand is that we'd like for our customers to be able to use
the Xilinx EDK toolchain (which we know they will have) to compile Linx
apps without having to install another toolchain (crosstool, ELDK, etc).
 
So, what I'm hoping is that the EDK toolchain can be configured to be
Linux compatible binaries, or that there is some kind of wrapper that
will handle the incompatible interfaces.  Searching around, I've seen
some mention of Linux EABI compatibility (for Debian ARM releases), but
I haven't found any clear concensus...
 
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Brian Silverman
Principal Engineer
iVeia
 

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EABI

[Brian Silverman]

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Is it possible to compile a Linux application using an EABI compiler 
(specfically, Xilinx's EDK powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe)?
 
The issue at hand is that we'd like for our customers to be able to use 
the Xilinx EDK toolchain (which we know they will have) to compile Linx 
apps without having to install another toolchain (crosstool, ELDK, etc).
 
So, what I'm hoping is that the EDK toolchain can be configured to be 
Linux compatible binaries, or that there is some kind of wrapper that 
will handle the incompatible interfaces.  Searching around, I've seen 
some mention of Linux EABI compatibility (for Debian ARM releases), but 
I haven't found any clear concensus...

P.S. My apologies if this message appears on the mailing list twice...

-- 
Brian Silverman
Concept X, LLC


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Re: EABI

[Kumar Gala]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Brian Silverman wrote:
> Is it possible to compile a Linux application using an EABI compiler  
> (specfically, Xilinx's EDK powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe)?
>
> The issue at hand is that we'd like for our customers to be able to  
> use the Xilinx EDK toolchain (which we know they will have) to  
> compile Linx apps without having to install another toolchain  
> (crosstool, ELDK, etc).
>
> So, what I'm hoping is that the EDK toolchain can be configured to  
> be Linux compatible binaries, or that there is some kind of wrapper  
> that will handle the incompatible interfaces.  Searching around,  
> I've seen some mention of Linux EABI compatibility (for Debian ARM  
> releases), but I haven't found any clear concensus...
>
> P.S. My apologies if this message appears on the mailing list twice...

The EABI and Linux ABI are not compatible and if you want to link with  
any libraries you will need a different compiler for linux.

- k

Re: EABI

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Brian Silverman
<bsilverman@conceptxdesign.com> wrote:
>
>
> Is it possible to compile a Linux application using an EABI compiler
> (specfically, Xilinx's EDK powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe)?
>
> The issue at hand is that we'd like for our customers to be able to use the
> Xilinx EDK toolchain (which we know they will have) to compile Linx apps
> without having to install another toolchain (crosstool, ELDK, etc).
>
> So, what I'm hoping is that the EDK toolchain can be configured to be Linux
> compatible binaries, or that there is some kind of wrapper that will handle
> the incompatible interfaces.  Searching around, I've seen some mention of
> Linux EABI compatibility (for Debian ARM releases), but I haven't found any
> clear concensus...
>
>  P.S. My apologies if this message appears on the mailing list twice...

Unfortunately, no.

I recommend making use of the ELDK toolchain from Denx.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

Re: EABI

[Ron Sass]

Unfortunately, it is not that easy.  The Xilinx tool chain use
newlib but your Linux kernel (and rootfs) is probably built
around glibc.  When we've wanted to do a quick-and-dirty test of
something that relies on Xilinx's patches to gcc, we have used
powerpc-eabi-gcc to compile to assembler and then used our own
crosstools compilers to link and load.

That doesn't solve your problem but hopefully it explains the
issue.

Ron

> Is it possible to compile a Linux application using an EABI compiler 
> (specfically, Xilinx's EDK powerpc-eabi-gcc.exe)?
>  
> The issue at hand is that we'd like for our customers to be able to use 
> the Xilinx EDK toolchain (which we know they will have) to compile Linx 
> apps without having to install another toolchain (crosstool, ELDK, etc).
>  
> So, what I'm hoping is that the EDK toolchain can be configured to be 
> Linux compatible binaries, or that there is some kind of wrapper that 
> will handle the incompatible interfaces.  Searching around, I've seen 
> some mention of Linux EABI compatibility (for Debian ARM releases), but 
> I haven't found any clear concensus...
> 
> P.S. My apologies if this message appears on the mailing list twice...
> 
> -- 
> Brian Silverman
> Concept X, LLC