Re: Help for building cross gcc for m68k

[Ken Wolcott <ken dot wolcott at med dot ge dot com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 16:31, David J. Stelte wrote:
>     I've been trying to build a cross compiler for the 68k family 
> running under cygwin.  I first downloaded cygwin with the native gcc for 
> the pc.  I then downloaded gcc, gunzipped it, untarred it, and built it 
> with the native gcc that came with cygwin.  However, it didn't seem to 
> build a cross version of the assembler and loader for the 68k.  When I 
> try to do a cross compile with the -S option suppressing assembly, I can 
> successfully generate a .s file indicating that the compiler is working. 
>  However, without the -S option, the cross gcc can't seem to find the 
> cross assembler and seems to be grabbing the native gcc assembler, which 
> of course doesn't understand the 68k assembly language.
> 
> I've searched the entire cygwin directory structure for another *as.exe, 
> but none can be found, so I'm convinced that the build process is not 
> producing a cross assembler.  I think the same is true for the loader, 
> but I haven't got that far yet.
> 
> I suspect that I may not be configuring properly before the build, but 
> not sure what to look at.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in 
> advance.
> 
> Dave

Dave;

  I suggest that you take a look at crosstool
(http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/) and look at the crossgcc mailing list
archives (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/)

HTH,
Ken