Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Kendall Bennett" Organization: SciTech Software, Inc. To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:01:02 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Cross compiler for Linux? Message-ID: <3AD4A9EE.5164.1A4E40C0@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Hi Guys, We are in the process of attempting to use Cygwin as a cross compile development environment for Linux using a Windows 2000 machine for development. Our plan is to target initially Red Hat 7.0, but we would like to support all distributions with one binary. Hence our plan is to simply staticly link the runtime libraries we use into our programs instead of dynamically linking the code to avoid issues with libc5, glibc2 glibc2.1 etc etc. We would also like to be able to remote debug from the Windows 2000 machine to the Linux box using TCP/IP (probably with GVD or Insight; does Insight support this?) So if anyone has any experience in this area or can point me to the appropriate FAQ's and documentation on doing this it would be appreciated. Also my plan initially is to start with the latest version of GCC/Binutils etc source code that already builds for Cygwin as the basis of the cross-compiler rather than using the Red Hat source code (definately not 2.96 from RH 7.0 ;-). Does that plan make sense, or should we start with a different version of the compiler? What about the binutils stuff, will the versions that are used for Cygwin work OK if we re-target and compile them for Linux? Thanks! +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | SciTech Software - Building Truly Plug'n'Play Software! | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett | Email: KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com | | Director of Engineering | Phone: (530) 894 8400 | | SciTech Software, Inc. | Fax : (530) 894 9069 | | 505 Wall Street | ftp : ftp.scitechsoft.com | | Chico, CA 95928, USA | www : http://www.scitechsoft.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple