Re: Cross compiling without ./configure

[mahmoodn]

Thank you David and Galen. You saved me from many future problems really
:handshake:
. I was not aware of such repositories. I will try to install gcc on the
machine.


David Boyce wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Galen Seitz <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> As I mentioned before, building a cross tool chain is not easy.  I
>> strongly
>> suggest that you install a tool chain directly on the Solaris system if
>> at
>> all possible.  You can find all the packages you need here:
>>  http://www.sunfreeware.com/
> 
> Any modern Solaris machine may already have the required tooling in
> /usr/sfw (stands for "solaris freeware"). Certainly any Solaris 10
> system would, and I think Solaris 9 did too.
> 
> FWIW many Solaris people prefer the stuff at opencsw.org to the stuff
> at sunfreeware.com (I do). It takes a few minutes to install and
> configure the pkgutil script and from there on it's a it's a nice
> auto-updating system analogous to what most Linux distros have. This
> stuff installs into /opt/csw as opposed to sunfreeware which goes into
> /usr/local.
> 
> The Sun compiler (Sun Studio) is also freely available nowadays so you
> have your choice of that or gcc via either of the sites above. I
> completely agree with Galen that it's hard to imagine why you'd want
> to cross compile to a stable, self-hosting OS like Solaris. Usually
> cross development is done for platforms which do not yet exist or
> which are too small or simpleminded to host the required tools.
> 
> David Boyce
> 
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