Cross Toolchain for arm1176

[Abhijeet Tripathi]

Hello Hector,

On 10/30/2009 11:17 AM, Hector Oron wrote:
> Hello Abhijeet,
>
>> Abhijeet Tripathi a écrit :
>>> I am a newbie in this and I need to develop a cross toolchain for
>>> arm1176 baseboard.
>
>    If you need an already compiled toolchain, there are more options.
> For example, emdebian provides already made toolchains for Debian.
> There are also some others providing binary packages for different
> distributions. Elinux site has a fair list of some posible
> candidates[1].
>
> [1] http://elinux.org/Toolchains
>
>>> Can you point me to some documentation or web link where I can get
>>> instructions to do so.
>
>    If you need to compile your own and have fun with it, there are many
> papers and tools out there for you to read and test. It also depends
> if you try to build packages for a distribution or if you try to
> compile the code from upstream. Some nice references are:
>
> CLFS site
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/clfs/view/clfs-2.0/arm/part3.html
>
> EGLIBC doc
> http://www.eglibc.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/branches/eglibc-2_5/libc/EGLIBC.cross-building?rev=1513
>
> GNUARM site for documentation
> http://gnuarm.com/support.html
>
> and already said GCC Compiler Collection great documentation.
>
> The chip you try to use, IIRC have an armv5 instruction set, so
> probably most of the already done toolchains out there fits you fine.
>
> Regards,

Thank you for the web links.

My idea is to develop a toolchain from scratch which can be used to 
compile kernel from upstream and make it compatible for arm1176 base board.

--Regards
Abhijeet