Contributing to cross-compiling

[Robert Schwebel]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:46:41PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote:
> 2008/1/31, Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com>:
> > 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"[*].
>
> The crosstool project http://kegel.com/crosstool is a humungous shell
> script with configuration files that has collected a lot of the
> "community wisdom" over the years about the necessary runes to build
> cross-compilers for different scenarios and with different
> target-cpu/gcc/glibc/OS combinations.
>
> There is also a menu-driven spin-off project, crosstool-ng, which is
> less mature but embodies the same set of knowledge.

And there is OSELAS.Toolchain:

http://www.pengutronix.de/oselas/toolchain/download/

Mature for the supported compilers, patches are welcome for anything
else :-)

Robert
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