Re: How to build a uclibc toolchain with crosstool (was: Question to you from a newbie)

[Carl Miller <chaz at energoncube dot net>]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:25:34AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Dan Strohschein wrote:
> >...  I am currently trying to develop a small application that would
> >run on a Linksys WRT54G router. This uses a mipsel CPU.
> >
> >I downloaded crosstools and compiled/built/installed it for the mipsel 
> >CPU. I would like to use uClibc for its size with this particular 
> >embedded system, but I can?t for the life of me figure out HOW to build 
> >uClibc to work with the crosstools. If you could point me at a resource, 
> >or perhaps share wisdom of your own on how I could go about 
> >accomplishing this, I would be very appreciative 
> 
> There's a patch in the contrib directory that adds uclibc support
> to crosstool-0.28-rc5.  It was posted by Carl Miller on 20 April 2004.
> Try
>   wget kegel.com/crosstool-0.28-rc5.tar.gz
>   wget 
>   http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.28-rc25/contrib/crosstool-uclibc-0.28-rc5.patch
>   tar -xzvf crosstool-0.28-rc5.tar.gz
>   cd crosstool-0.28-rc5
>   patch -p1 < ../crosstool-uclibc-0.28-rc5.patch
>   eval `cat gcc-3.3.3-uclibc-0.9.23.dat mipsel.dat` all.sh
> 
> I think Carl only tested it with arm, though, so who knows if that'll 
> work...
> - Dan

ARM7 and PPC405.  And I didn't get enough of a chance to give the ARM7
version as good a thorough test as I would have liked.  But the PPC405
seemed to be reasonably solid.  Let me know how MIPS goes; maybe I can
help if you run into a problem.


                             ------Carl

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