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win32 gcc cross compiling for linux target

Aug 3rd, 2005

Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to do it? Or if there is another way?

Cygwin GCC creates PE binaries (i think), I want ELF binaries.

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Re: win32 gcc cross compiling for linux target

Aug 3rd, 2005

I am not sure if this can be done, specially given that you are going to do it from Windows. However, have you had a look into GCC manual? http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/onlinedocs/

Also why not do the task on a Linux machine?

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Re: win32 gcc cross compiling for linux target

Aug 3rd, 2005

i've read a little from the manual but it seems that i should be looking at the build options for cygwin-gcc instead.

i am trying to compile the JOS operating system that is used as an example in OS design courses at UCLA, MIT and NYU. It compiles fine on linux (and i am having issues compiling it on cygwin). I also think that it needs to be an ELF binary... but I haven't got it to compile yet anyway.

We use windows at work, so i'm looking at doing a little work on it in my free time there...

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