Porting GCC Toolchain

[mbroadst@bryant.edu]

Hi, I am working for a hobby OS named SkyOS and was interested in 
porting the gcc 3.x toolchain to the OS. The 2.95 chain was ported by 
the operating system author Robert Szeleney, however he did it in a 
rather unconventional (hacked hehe) way, in which he just had the build 
process assume it was building for Cygwin, and then manually modifying 
makefiles and source code here and there. I was hoping to port the 
toolchain in a more regulated, clean way. Would anyone that’s part of 
the gcc team be willing to help me get started? (Mind you I have read a 
plethora of material “Porting GCC for dunces” etc, but can’t seem to 
get a laundry list of things I need to do) A big issue I have found is 
that SkyOS has a TERRIBLE command line, which is what lead me to this 
process in the first place (wanted to build bash for SkyOS..) Thank you 
so much in advance, and by the way you guys make a really great 
product, cheers to you all!

 

                                                   -- Matt Broadstone