On 31/01/2008, Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
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.
Nonetheless, if someone decided to go through the hassle of collecting
tutorials and hints for various cross-compiling configurations in the
wiki, I think many users will appreciate it. It is still considered by
many to be a "dark art"[*].
I personally remember trying to build a win32 dll in linux-gnu and
giving up after following 2 or 3 different methods out there.