[uClibc] uclibc on OSX?

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Tue Jun 29 10:42:49 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:39:01AM +0100, Seb James wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 02:10, OpenMacNews wrote:
> > well, my target/goal is very clearly the latter ... just want to 'build & modify stuff' for my Linksys, and to, perhaps, add/contribute to the Sveasoft project.
> > 
> > BUT, i thought the _former_ would be required to do so.
> > 
> > "just work" ???  i need to be educated ... thoughts/insights?
> 
> First you want to install a native gcc on your OSX, if you've not
> already got one. Then download the buildroot.tar.gz package, from the
> uclibc site and have a look at this. This will use your native gcc to
> compile a cross-gcc for you which will run on your host and generate
> code for your device.

Afraid that won't work.  As far as I know, Sveasoft is still using the
broadcom/linksys toolchain and a year-old version of uClibc.  Current
uClibc will not be compatible.  It is probably possible to build
a toolchain from their sources though.

Manuel



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