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On 12 Mar 2004 at 16:05, Daniel Kegel wrote: > Harry Kaes wrote: > > I'm trying to build a cross compiler for the mips processors running under > > cygwin for a couple of days now. I did not succeed yet, but I'm getting > > closer as I'm gathering more information. The problem I'm dealing with now > > is which library I should use to compile the cross-compiler. I'm a bit > > confused about which library is needed for what! > > Apparently you need a library to build the cross compiler, which seems > > logical. In the crossgcc faq of bill gatliff a bootstrap gcc is build in > > order to build the libraries which are eventually needed to build the actual > > cross compiler. What confuses me is that you build the libraries with a > > cross compiler. I thought you would need a library compiled for the > > i686-pc-cygwin environment to be able to build the cross compiler as it will > > be running in that environment. I assume that if I build the libraries with > > the bootstrap cross compiler they are actually build for the mips processor, > > so how can they be used then to build a cross compiler which will be running > > on the i686. > > I'm using the gcc which is delivered with the cygwin environment to compile > > the cross compiler, and I thought that would be also the compiler to use to > > build the libraries which are needed to build the cross compiler. > > What libraries do you need? If it's glibc, then crosstool automates > everything for you... Dan, Are you still lacking support for Cygwin? Or have you added it in to crosstool recently? (I've been away from crossgcc list for a few months.) Eric ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sources.redhat.com
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