From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Oct 19 07:19:00 2009 Message-ID: <4ADC4AAF.50506@atari-source.org> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:17:03 -0400 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Rivi=E8re?= CC: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Cross-compiler poll References: <4ADC2D2C.5080309@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4ADC2D2C.5080309@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Score: -1.4 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Vincent Rivière wrote: > Hello. > > As you know, I'm interested in keeping up to date the MiNT patches for > the GNU build toolchain (binutils, GCC...). The idea is to be able to > use the latest compiler features for our favorite target. > > Building software for MiNT is just a hobby for me, because I don't > really use MiNT or Atari machines myself, I use only emulators for > testing purposes. > > I love cross-compilers because they allow to build programs for any > machine (including Atari/MiNT) from the computer you use daily (PC, > Macintosh...), with all your favorite tools. > > My task is to produce clean patches for the toolchain. However > "normal" developers need the binaries of the cross-compiler for their > favorite OS. Rebuilding the whole toolchain is a long and quite > complicated task for people not accustomed to this process. So in > order to be useful, a cross-compiler must be provided in a ready to > use, binary form, for each useful OS. > > I provide Cygwin binaries because they are the ones I need myself. > > So my question is: > > What is the machine/OS you use daily, on which you would *really* > build programs for MiNT using the GCC cross-compiler if easy-to-use > binaries would be available ? > > If you don't plan to use the cross-complier regularly, please don't > reply. Replies like "it would be cool to make cross compiler binaries > for any OS in the world" would be ignored. > > Serious answers could be "Mac OS 10.x", "Ubuntu x.xx 64 bit", etc). > MacOS 10.5/10.6. But Fedora 11 is fine too.