From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv To: "jakub" , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:50:34 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: DJGPP as cross-compiler -> Linux Message-ID: <3D5946EA.28138.162B982@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 13 Aug 2002 at 15:49, jakub wrote: > > > Does cross-compiler for dos, which can produce linux elf files exists? > > > Maybe some of you already have it? I don't like the idea having > > > "fun" trying to change my DJGPP... > > > > Of course I could be wrong, but I think that rather unlikely. Opposite > > direction (Linux hosted cross-compiler for DJGPP) is much more common. > Perhaps > > it could be possible to build DJGPP hosted cross-compiler for Linux, but I > > myself would prefer rebooting Linux to do any compilation for it > > Yes, there are many examples of Linux to DOS cross-compilers, > a lot of documentation how to install DJGPP on linux... > In some cases rebooting isn't the best way or is just impossible. Perhaps compiling under Linux is preferable, unless You only have Linux on some embedded system (or some really slow box). Also building various Linux packages with DJGPP hosted cross-compiler may not be easy (You may need to hack configure scripts to get them work at all) Andris