Re: Cross compiling Newlib for ARM in Cygwin

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 22 Mar 2016 12:35, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2016-03-22 12:28, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 22 Mar 2016 10:47, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> >> On 2016-03-22 09:33, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
> >>> pardon my obtuseness: I'd like to build newlib for the arm-none-eabi target on a Cygwin host.
> >>>
> >>> I have a arm-none-eabi GCC and Binutils which was built for native Windows.
> >>
> >> Cygwin != native Windows.  If you want to use a Cygwin shell for
> >> cross-compiling, then you'll want Cygwin-hosted cross-compilers.
> >>
> >>> I have downloaded newlib-cygwin in directory ./newlib-cygwin .  I create a directory ./newlib-cygwin-arm, and
> >>>
> >>> $ export CC=arm-none-eabi-gcc
> >>> $ cd newlib-cygwin-arm
> >>> $ ../newlib-cygwin/configure
> >>
> >> That is not how cross-compiling works.  Cross-compiler toolchains
> >> (binutils/gcc/gdb/newlib) are built by configuring with the desired
> >> --target.
> >
> > i think you mean --host
> 
> No, I didn't.

looks like newlib is an aberration and uses --target when it should
use --host.  probably due to being integrated w/binutils et al.
-mike

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