Anyone with experience in Cross-Compiling, especially to an embedded powerPC?

[Michael Havens]

wait a second..... forgive my ignorance but I thought space craft had
nultiple computers to use as fail-safes. couldn't you shut down one, feed
the new system into one of those, test it, and then use that to feed a
second and then a third until all of them are updated?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Mike Bushroe <mbushroe at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Kevin,
>   I started trying to play with this cross compile for the router awhile
> back and found crosstool. But I got too confused and stopped short of
> getting even a first run in. I agree that if this can be made to work, that
> is the best route for me to take. And I would be doing ppc from x64.
>
> Mike
>
> *Author: *Kevin Brandon <staticrealm at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *2014-05-13 17:54 -700
>>
>> *To: *Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: Anyone with experience in Cross-Compiling, especially to
>> an embedded powerPC?
>> Mike,
>> It's been a long time since I had to build a cross compiler. What a bear
>> that task is! I fought and researched and learned a lot about it. Still
>> what ultimately helped me accomplish it was the work that was started by
>> Dan Kegel on a tool called crosstool.
>>
>> http://kegel.com/crosstool/
>>
>> That tool didn't have exactly the support for what I needed at the time
>> but
>> I found it cleanly designed and easily updatable to accomplish what I was
>> targeting (Which was ppc from x86).
>>
>> Building a toolchain takes many hours of compiling and lots of
>> frustrations
>> when some error during the process... Im not sure if crosstool has been
>> updated in a long time but it might be worth looking at least as some
>> instructions in script form.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>
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