Could you provide steps for building cross tool chain. I have not done it so long. I have tried many different versions of howtos but all have fallen short or I am not understanding. I need a toolchain for target 'mips-unknown-elf'.
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Robert Watson <rwat...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, James Jones wrote: > >> Does anyone have a prebuilt MIPS tool chain? > > For FreeBSD-related MIPS work, I generally use the FreeBSD "toolchain" target > followed by the "buildenv" environment, but that requires first building a > cross-toolchain using TARGET_ARCH and TARGET. However, the result is a > pretty sane compiler, linker, etc, setup for the MIPS of your choice (we tend > to use mips64eb). > > We also use the MIPS-provided SDE toolchain for Linux at the CL, but that > appears to be out of maintenance, and I haven't found its bug density to be > any lower, really, than the even more ageing FreeBSD versions of the tools. > In fact, there are some toolchain bugs I'm running into that manifest only in > the SDE toolchain and not the FreeBSD toolchain. (Mind you, Philip has > commented that in building Uboot for MIPS, he's found FreeBSD bugs that don't > appear in the SDE toolchain, so mileage varies). > > We're greatly looking forward to MIPS support for LLVM, which currently > appears very premature indeed. Someone from MIPS appears to be contributing > to it, however, and we (cl.cam.ac.uk) hope to provide some implementation > support for that effort in the immediate future. > > Robert _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
