https://github.com/erikw/ewxb-gcc-cross-compiler-builder

A script for building a full GCC + glibc toolchain from scratch (with Go support via gccgo) in multiple stages.
https://github.com/erikw/ewxb-gcc-cross-compiler-builder

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A script for building a full GCC + glibc toolchain from scratch (with Go support via gccgo) in multiple stages.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/erikw/ewxb-gcc-cross-compiler-builder
• Owner: erikw
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2014-03-27T12:38:48.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-02-15T07:23:13.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-13T21:35:27.538Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: cross-compile, cross-compiler, cross-compiler-toolchain, gcc, glibc, hacktoberfest, linux
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 544 KB
• Stars: 19
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ewxb - Erik Westrup's GCC cross-compiler builder

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This is a script documenting the steps and phases take when I compiled a GCC cross toolchain for GCC 4.9 head (with Go support). Building a cross-compiler is complex due to dependencies so a lot of bootstrapping has to be done. This script is inspired by Jim Blandy's excellent eglibc cross-compiling guide posted at eglibc's mailinglist at [\[patches\] Cross-building instructions](http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00078.html).

This script can serve as a starting point for those who want to build a x-toolchain from scratch. Don't expect it to work in directly as it's tailored for my setup. Instead you can re-use the phases and modify the script with parameters that you need. The last phases adds Go support, which is easy to comment out if you're only interested in a C/C++ compiler.

My setup was:

* Host/Build system: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

* Target: mips

* gcc: 4.9.0

* glibc: 2.19

* binutils: 2.24

The scripts makes it easy to run specific phases (or range of phases) so that you easly can tweak a failing phase and continue with the ones that follows when you have got one phase to work. Make sure to edit [x_environment.sh](x_environment.sh) to the right versions of the packages and build paths to use.

For any details, simply read the [sauce](ewxb).

More info about using Go with a gccgo cross-compiler can be found at the [go-wiki](http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GccgoCrossCompilation).

![Resulting x-compiler tools](result.png)

The sweet result after playing some Rube Goldberg trickery games.