Re: GCC for Windows-98 DOS, Cross-compiling for StrongARM target

[Andris Pavenis <pavenis at latnet dot lv>]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Steve Pye wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is part of your FAQ - in my find it's much simpler than the 
> issues which are addressed in the FAQ that I found.
> 
> I would like a Windows 98 binary for GCC that will cross-compile for a StrongARM
> CPU.
> 
> I have downloaded the gcc source, v3.0.4, spent forever finding a binary for GNU
> make (at delorie.com), I have djgpp, but even with all that, I can't seem to be able
> to build GCC for DOS under Windows 98.  The configure instructions in the 

For DJGPP one usually have to feed some hints for configure scripts.
Therefore there are some shell scripts in DJGPP source package which 
does that.

> install directory refer to a 'configure' utility which appears to be a UNIX shell 
> script - which I don't think work with DOS.  I then found 'cygwin', and installed

DJGPP port of bash (2.0.4) is available. Get v2gnu/bsh204b.zip from DJGPP
distribution. You will need many other backages (see file
gnu/gcc-3.04/readme.DJGPP inside gcc304b.zip)

> it, but the configure shell script causes a Page Fault Exception.
 
You need DJGPP ports of GNU packages (not Cygwin ones) 

> I think there are probably many, many people out there who would like to use
> the GNU C Cross-compiler in a DOS environment, but don't want to have to
> download the source, then try and configure and compile the compiler.  Does a 
> binary download of GCC exist anywhere?, i.e. a simple gccxxx.zip file that contains
> the appropriate compiler/linker/etc. executables, and .h files?  If yes, can you
> please point me there, and if no, it might be a useful thing to have.

If You think about binaries of DJGPP hosted croscompiler for StrongARM,
then I don't know (haven't heard anything) 

Andris