Cross compiling Newlib for ARM in Cygwin

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-03-22 12:28, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2016 10:47, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2016-03-22 09:33, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
>>> pardon my obtuseness: I'd like to build newlib for the arm-none-eabi target on a Cygwin host.
>>>
>>> I have a arm-none-eabi GCC and Binutils which was built for native Windows.
>>
>> Cygwin != native Windows.  If you want to use a Cygwin shell for
>> cross-compiling, then you'll want Cygwin-hosted cross-compilers.
>>
>>> I have downloaded newlib-cygwin in directory ./newlib-cygwin .  I create a directory ./newlib-cygwin-arm, and
>>>
>>> $ export CC=arm-none-eabi-gcc
>>> $ cd newlib-cygwin-arm
>>> $ ../newlib-cygwin/configure
>>
>> That is not how cross-compiling works.  Cross-compiler toolchains
>> (binutils/gcc/gdb/newlib) are built by configuring with the desired
>> --target.
>
> i think you mean --host

No, I didn't.

-- 
Yaakov