How to enable soft-float support in newlib and gcc toolchains for an i386 target

[Mian M. Hamayun]

Hello Everyone,

I am newbie to newlib and gcc toolchains, so my question may be a little 
ambiguous for this forum.

In fact I am trying to build a gcc toolchain with newlib for an i386 
target which doesn't support hw float/mmx instructions. In fact it is a 
virtual machine which I am targeting.
So when I compile my applications with "-msoft-float" flag, I get quite 
a few unresolved symbols.

For Example:
Sources/susan.c:979: undefined reference to `__floatsisf'
Sources/susan.c:979: undefined reference to `__divsf3'
Sources/susan.c:1626: undefined reference to `__subdf3'
Sources/susan.c:1628: undefined reference to `__mulsf3'
...

So my obvious 'guess' is to rebuild the gcc toolchain and/or newlib 
using "--with-float=soft" and/or "--enable-soft-float" options. But so 
far I haven't been able to build a toolchain that solves this issue.

Any help / pointers in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
Please also point-out if this is not the right forum for this type of 
question.

Best Regards,
Hamayun

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