Re: GCC Cross Compilation

[Khem Raj <kraj at mvista dot com>]

Vishal Kothari wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to create an application for Psion 5MX device. It has an ARM
> Processor on it. Is it possible using GCC to build the application for
> ARM?
>  
yes

> The application is in C.
> If a device which has an ARM Processor and I build my application for
> that processor, then will the application run irrespective of the
> Operating System on that device?
>  
no

> I also tried using the Epoc SDK available for Linux but wasn't successful.
>
>  
There are system dependent libraries which are specific. So if you use 
arm-elf-linux targets it will work for linux
for a bare metal you might try arm-elf-none or one build with newlib 
instead of glibc ( I am assuming that your system is using ELF object 
format)

HTH

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Khem Raj
MontaVista Software Inc.
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