Hi,
I built a toolchain for ppc under cygwin about a year ago.
I used the Billgatliff's script(http://crossgcc.billgatliff.com/build-crossgcc.sh)
It failed to build glibc. So I copied glibc from a linux machine.
I've been using the toolchain, without any problem, for our custom MPC755 board, for about a year.
I recommand the Billgatliff's script, if you are going to make a tool chain for ppc under cygwin.

- Sangmoon Kim -

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Malek" <redacted>
To: "Kenneth Johansson" <redacted>
Cc: "Dr. Craig Hollabaugh" <redacted>; "Marius Groeger" <redacted>; "John Fisher" <redacted>; "Linuxppc embedded" <redacted>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: cygwin and embedded linux

Kenneth Johansson wrote:

quoted

And I remember what you thought about people like me that tried to make
the cross compile environment going.

The only opinion I have changed is that people that can actually make
this work well (and I know of only a couple) have a special talent
and I really like them to hang around :-)

I guess when you work for a large company that will pay your salary regardless
of missing schedules and can only provide half-assed tools you have to
cobble together to make things work, you are both lucky and have my sympathy.
I don't have the patience or development time to create or debug my
development tools, they just have to work.  I'm not using anything that
anyone else can't go out and purchase or download, and it continues to
baffle me why people won't take the easy route to developing software.

quoted

But it finally did work out OK and nowadays all you really need to now
is what parameters to give the configure script.

There is LOTS more to creating an easy to use and properly created set
of development tools than knowing some parameters to configure scripts.
Only a couple of people I know understand the magic, and it isn't documented.
I'm just going to rely on them to make my job easier :-)

Have fun!


-- Dan

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