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RE: Contributing to cross-compiling
- From: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
- To: Rodrigo Dominguez <roddomi at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: "'Ian Lance Taylor'" <iant at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:08:48 +1100
- Subject: RE: Contributing to cross-compiling
- References: <BAY129-DAV15ADD4FEB7A6597A3527DAB9370@phx.gbl>
> It seems like the best place to start for someone new to GCC would be the
> beginners projects off from the GCC Projects webpage
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/beginner.html). I think I will start from there
> and then try to move to the cross-compiling area.
Once you get into GCC in enough detail, you'll come to appreciate that
cross-compiling is not particularly special. It's just the compiler
running on a different system type to the code being generated. There
is certainly a bit of intricacy in building GCC for such an environment,
but conceptually, it's very straightforward.
Welcome, and thanks for joining up!
Ben