Re: Building a GNAT cross compiler

[jcreem@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com (Jeff Creem)]

In article <os20by4mze.fsf@ted.vigra.com>, David L Brown
<dbrown@ted.vigra.com> wrote:

>jcreem@mailgw.sanders.lockheed.com (Jeff Creem) writes:
>
>> In article <32C94EB6.41C67EA6@innocon.com>, Jeff Carter
>> <carter@innocon.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >I find myself in the position of needing to build a GNAT cross compiler.
>
>> >We are targeting a MIPS system under VxWorks, which comes with a gcc C
>> >cross compiler hosted on a Sun Sparc Solaris 2.4 system. VxWorks
>
>> There is something in the gcc docs that mentions that cross to MIPS is
>> not fully supported (which is where Algorithmics comes into play. I
>> think they
>
>Hmm, we have been running code crossed to MIPS for over two years, all
>built from sources unpacked directly from GNU.  The target
>mips-ecoff-netbsd should allow you to generate standalone MIPS code.  I
>hacked this up a bit because we have an OS on the machine as well
>(custom).  You do have to use the gnu binutils and tell configure for
>gcc.  Build the binutils with mips-ecoff-idt (I think).
>
>Also, I have built and am running gnat 3.07 on a Linux machine cross
>compiling to and embedded Linux box.
>
>If someone wants, I can send them patches and even instructions to do
>what I did.
>
>Dave Brown
>dbrown@vigra.com


That would be cool. What was the host machine that you built the cross 
compiler on.

Jeff