Cross compile helloworld.c

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 26 June 2013 16:57, Burning Thumb wrote:
> You know I thought this would be so easy, and maybe it is...
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 on an intel machine and I want to cross compile helloworld.c so that the resulting binary will execute on Ubuntu on a powerpc machine.
>
> So something simple like:
>  gcc helloworld.c --target powerpc-linux -o helloworldppc
>
> But the answer seems to always come back how to cross compile gcc itself...
>
> Anyone have a one liners on how to simply cross compile helloworld.c for ubuntu ppc?

You need a cross compiler.  The target is fixed when GCC is built, so
you cannot use a GCC built for the intel target to build binaries for
the powerpc target.