On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:51 PM, $rik@nth <srikanth0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Jim Wilson <jim.wil...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:37 PM, $rik@nth <srikanth0...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You mean if i set --host=arm-linux-gnuebi and >>> --target=arm-linux-gunebi should automatically pick cross compilers >> >> Yes, in theory, it should find CC, AS, AR, etc by itself. Don't >> forget that you need to set all 3 of build, host, and target for this >> to work. >> >>> instead of pointing them? I am just following Linaro website on how to >>> build cross tool chain >>> https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BuildingGNUToolchains >> >> That page only talks about a basic cross build. it doesn't talk about >> cross building a native. >> >>> Please let me know if there is some more links where i can follow precisely. >> >> We call it a "canadian cross" when build != host != target. What you >> are trying to do is very similar to a canadian cross, and works >> basically the same way. If you do a web search for "build canadian >> cross gcc" then you can find some web pages that talk about this. In >> general, this isn't well documented, because it is much harder to do a >> canadian cross than a regular cross, and it usually requires learning >> quite a bit about how gcc builds work in order to be able to do it >> successfully. >> >> We have a tool called ABE that we use for builds inside linaro. There >> is a wiki page for it at >> https://wiki.linaro.org/ABE > > Thanks you. I will go through this utility for building native toolchain. > >> I know that this has support for a windows canadian cross build, e.g. >> build=x86_64-linux host=i686-w64-mingw3 and then a target or arm or >> aarch64. I don't know offhand if it can be used for what you are >> trying to do. >> >> Building a native gcc binary is much easier than trying to cross build >> a native. You should do a native build if you can. > > Though this is very new to me. Definitely i will give it a try as you > mentioned this process is very easy to build native gcc binaries. But > here i want to build static binaries and where i need to pass the > Flags to ABE. There is no argument supports to build static tool > chains. I gone through the script and saw there are env settings [--set {cflags|ldflags|runtestflags|makeflags}=XXX] > >> >> Jim > > > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > M.Srikanth Kumar.
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