Is a target glibc really needed to build full crossgcc?

Dimitry Andric dimitry@andric.com
Wed Sep 14 12:48:00 GMT 2005


On 2005-09-14 at 14:10:25 Henrik Bechmann wrote:

> When you build a cross compiler toolchain, you have to build glibc berfore
> you can
> build the full gcc. But is the cross glibc libraries actually needed to
> build the full crossgcc,
> or is it only the glibc header files that are needed?

To let the crosscompiler actually build any executables that run on
the target, you always need at least *a* C runtime library, or
C++/Java/ObjC etc, if you turn on those languages.
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