cross compiler for mips under cygwin - building libraries

[Daniel Kegel]

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

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