Re: How to enable multilib?

[Xun Li <lxfind at gmail dot com>]

Yann,

Thanks for your detailed explanation!
You are right I only need soft-float to be enabled so I would only
need to compile the toolchain once.
But I was not sure where to configure so that it will build with
soft-float by default..Sorry for my newbe question.
Could you elaborate a little bit on how to build with soft-float?
I was using the original version of crosstool since I was not aware
there is a new one now!

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Yann E. MORIN
<yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> Xun, All,
>
> On Sunday 27 March 2011 19:54:09 Xun Li wrote:
>> I would need to use -msoft-float options to simulate floating point
>> calculations, hence I would need multilib to be enabled in the cross
>> compiler.
>
> You do not need multilib to enable soft-float. You can have the toolchain
> be entirely soft-float by default.
>
> Multilib is needed if you want the _same_ toolchain to be able to emit
> both HW and SW floating point operations.
>
> (Note: the compiler itself is able to generate both SW and HW, but the
> libraries have to be compiled twice, once for each case).
>
>> How to do this in the crosstool?
>
> Do you mean crostool, as 'the original crosstool by Dan KEGEL' and
> hosted there: http://kegel.com/crosstool/ ?
>
> Or do you mean crosstool-NG, as 'the fork by Yann E. MORIN" and
> hosted there: http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool ?
>
> If the former, I don't really know. I think crosstool had support for
> building multilb, but I never tried.
>
> For the latter, no, crostool-NG does not support multilib. Properly doing so
> is not easy. Multilib has a broad meaning, depending on the architecture you
> speak about. For example:
>
> - x86:
> ?- 32-bit and 64bit,
> ?- SW and HW floats
> ?--> 4 combinations
>
> - ARM:
> ?- SW and HW floats
> ?- float format: VFP vs. softfp vs. NEON vs. Maverick
> ? ? ? (not too sure I'm not speaking with my ass here...)
> ?- armv4, armv5, armv6, armv7
> ?- big and little endian
> ?- ARM vs. Thumb
> ?- with or without interworking
> ?- ARM vs. ARM26 ?(although ARM26 is really dead nowadays)
> ?- OABI vs. EABI
> ?--> a hell of a lot of combinations! (1024 if I count correctly?)
>
> MIPS:
> ?- Pfff. I don't even want to try listing it...
> ?--> a lot of conbinations as well (but less than for ARM?)
>
> And for each combination in said architecture, we'd need to build all of the
> libraries running on the target. And even if you can do it, we'd need a way
> to configure the subset of multilib we'd want.
>
> For now, I'd recommend to build one toolchain for each combination you need.
> Basically, that boils down to two toolchain if you are only interested in HW
> vs. SW floating point.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
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Xun Li
Computer Architecture Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

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