On 2008-06-12 22:52 +0500, Shaz wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues and don't know which > will be the best alternative.
'issues' are generally par for the course. It's a difficult problem. I've generally found buildroot the least-painful of the above, largely because it targets a relatively small section of the problem-space. For completeness I should also mention that Embedded Debian provides yet another option. I will not claim that it will have fewer issues than the above. http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/intro.html I'm not sure if you are really asking about toolchains or build-systems? The former is fairly reliably solved. For a debian-based box just install pre-built cross toolchians from emdebian: http://www.emdebian.org/tools/crosstools.html (from i386, amd64, powerpc; to: nearly all debian-supported architectures, gcc3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3) http://www.emdebian.org/toolchains/search.php?section=devel gives more details. emdebian-tools also provides the debian equivalent of crosstool ('emchain' to build your own version of current current toolchain, should a suitable pre-built one not exist. For non-debian boxes other people seem to have listed the options so I won't repeat (and it's not my area of expertise). Wookey (Emdebian 'Chief bullshitter' - bias alert. The toolchains are great though, really.) -- Principal hats: Balloonz - Toby Churchill - Aleph One - Debian http://wookware.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
