Contributing to cross-compiling

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

On 31/01/2008, Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> Once you get into GCC in enough detail, you'll come to appreciate that
> cross-compiling is not particularly special.  It's just the compiler
> running on a different system type to the code being generated.  There
> is certainly a bit of intricacy in building GCC for such an environment,
> but conceptually, it's very straightforward.

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"[*].

I personally remember trying to build a win32 dll in linux-gnu and
giving up after following 2 or 3 different methods out there.

Cheers,

Manuel.

[*] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2008-01/msg00290.html