Advice on compiling GCJ for ARM

Tue Sep 21 14:18:00 GMT 2010

On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 21/09/10 04:14, Josh Marinacci wrote:
>>> I've been trying off and on for a week to build a GCJ compiler for
>> webOS, a Linux variant on ARM, with very little success. On the
>> bright side I've started to learn more about how the GCC build
>> system works. :) My host machine is Mac OSX 10.6.4, Snow
>> Leopard. I've been able to get GCJ for Mac OSX (darwin) working
>> (though with a few issues), but I can't the cross compiler to even
>> finish compiling.
>> Works for me. You have to build with the right options. My setup is
>> $ /home/aph/gcc/gcc-4_5-branch/configure --prefix=/home/aph/x-arm/install --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --with-sysroot=/home/aph/x-arm/rootfs-f12/ --with-headers=/home/aph/x-arm/chroot-arm/usr/include/ -disable-libssp --disable-libgomp --disable-libmudflap --disable-multilib --disable-static --disable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-languages=java

what version of gcc & glibc are you using?
>>> So my first question is really just a request for advice: what
>> version of GCC should I start with? Which one is likely to give me
>> the most success? Recent 4.5 builds?
>>>> Second, should I be using glibc or newlib? 
>> glibc.
>> Andrew.

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