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CrossGCC FAQ

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CrossGCC Frequently Asked Questions

Maintainer: Scott Howard, scott@sthoward.com

1. Introduction

• 1.1 What is crossgcc?
• 1.2 How can I subscribe/unsubscribe to the list?
• 1.3 Where can I find an archive of the list?
• 1.4 Where can I find copies of this FAQ?
• 1.5 How can I submit suggestions/improvements/additions for this FAQ?

2. List of the pieces needed and where to find them

3. Patches

• 3.1 linux-x-djgpp.diff

4. How to configure, build, and install GCC as a cross-compiler

• 4.1 Unix Systems
• 4.2 One Pass Installation
• 4.3 Can I build in a directory different from the source tree?
• 4.4 Can I use a non-GNU make?
• 4.5 Is there a script available to automate the build process?
• 4.6 Cygnus Releases
• 4.7 Win32 hosted cross-compilers
• 4.8 Gnu CC and MS-DOS
• 4.9 Canadian Crosses
• 4.10 Disk space requirements

5. Frequently Encountered Problems

• 5.1 installation problem, cannot exec `cpp': No such file or directory
• 5.2 Assembler errors while building GCC's enquire or libgcc.a
• 5.3 Unresolved symbols during linking
• 5.4 Where are open, read, write, close, etc. ?
• 5.5 How do I pass options from GCC to GAS or GLD?
• 5.6 How do I write an interrupt handler in C?
• 5.7 How do I write assembler code that works with m68k-aout's leading `_' and

6. Library Support

• 6.1 What is libgcc.a?
• 6.2 How do I force GCC to emit inline code for memcpy?
• 6.3 Why would I choose glibc over newlib (or vice versa)?
• 6.4 What if I need software floating point support?
• 6.5 Why are several copies of newlib built?

7. Using GDB for Remote Debugging

• 7.1 BDM Support

8. S Records, etc.

• 8.1 What are S Records?
• 8.2 How do I use objcopy to generate S Records?
• 8.3 How do I use the linker to generate S Records?

9. Target Specific Info

• 9.1 What embedded targets are supported?

10. Operating systems for embedded systems

• 10.1 RTEMS
• 10.2 eCOS

11. How to get help

• 11.1 General questions
• 11.2 Online documentation
• 11.3 Web sites
• 11.4 Bug reporting
• 11.5 Other mailing lists, web sites, newsgroups, etc.

12. Glossary

13. Contributors