how to make a PowerPC executable??

Wed Dec 17 00:54:04 EST 2008



On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:26:27 +0100, Laurent Pinchart
<laurentp at cse-semaphore.com> wrote:
> Hi Umesh,
> 
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008 13:20:57 umesh krishnan wrote:
>> Hi group,
>>
>> I have a little problem out here. I have some codes with me which i have
> to
>> run on PowerPC based target. I dont have that particular hardware with
> me.
>> Can anyone suggest a cross-compiler or an emulator, so that i can
> compile
>> my codes in linux and make a PowerPC executable from here. I tried qemu
> but
>> it didn't work.
>>
>> It was making a 386 executable rather than a powerpc executable. The
> cross
>> compiler option 'powerpc-750-unknown-gnu-gcc' was not coming.. Instead
> it
>> was to build a 386 based executable. I did everything following the
>> "Emulation and cross-development for PowerPC" page in the link
>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-emulation.html ..
>> qemu-ppc emulator was installed correctly but the crosstool was the
>> problem. Please help me out. I cant afford a VxWorks (For the workbench
> or
>> the Tornado compiler). Any way out..
>> Can i sit on windows and do something? Is there any emulator like that?
>> I'm fairly new to this field. Kindly guide me through..
> 
> Building a gcc-based cross toolchain isn't that difficult nowadays. The
> crosstool scripts (available at http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/) should
> make
> your life much easier.

If you want to build a "native" powerpc compiler that run inside a qemu
based linux system (so that you can also test the binary on this target),
you could also have a look at http://impactlinux.com/fwl/

JC

> 
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