Re: Cross-compiling ....

["Andrea Bocci" <fwyzard at inwind dot it>]

> I am trying to build a cross-compiler that goes from a pc running
> windows 2000 to an embedded Motorola 68360 processor. I have failed in
> so many ways so far that I am about ready to give up.

>From the mailing list, cross compiling is the most complex thing people encounter when
using GCC. At least,  the one a lot of people complain about as being badly documented
and hard to make work.

So, my advices are 0.) Try again with GCC 3.2and the latest binutils and newlib (guess
you won't used glibc for an ambedded target...) 1.) Read all the latest ML messages
regarding cross-compiling with GCC. 2.) Have a good search on Google for something
like   GCC "cross compiler" coìnfiguration howto 3.) If everthing else fail, and you're
really interested in making things work, mail me. I'm on holiday right now, and I'll be
home by the first days of September. Then, one of the things in my todolist is to put up a
good GCC working base, so I'll bebuilding it as a crosscompiler from cygwin for quite
some architectures (linux to test it, the hpux, solaris and someembedded chip). If I
menage it, I'll send a (skeleton of) documentation to the ML, and if the thing gets good,
maybe it'll end online some where.

I guess that feedback from others trying to do this will be invaluable, so, stay tuned :-)

I know this won't help much right now, but maybe you'll keep on trying :-)
fwyzard