Cross compilation, windows and m68k??

07-07-2009	#1 (permalink)
Brandon77 Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 27	Cross compilation, windows and m68k?? I am using GNU and gcc, wondering if it is possible to compile a program and output 2 versions, one that runs on a windows machine and one that runs on a motorola 68000 processor??

07-10-2009	#2 (permalink)
Brandon77 Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 27	...and by cross compilation I mean porting the code to run on a M68k as well as an Intel T7600 processor, anyone know how to do this??

07-14-2009	#3 (permalink)
Rubberman Linux Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: I can be found either 40 miles west of Chicago, or in a galaxy far, far away. Posts: 2,662	Building an application on LInux to run on a Windows system is problematic at best since you don't have all the support libraries available that are required to run under Windows. All the program initialization code and such differ significantly. Building a LInux application on an x86 system to run on an M68k processor is a much more reasonable endeavor. You need to review the GNU documentation about processor family options when building cross-platform code. It is too complex to get into here, I think. __________________ Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.

07-14-2009

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Building an application on LInux to run on a Windows system is problematic at best since you don't have all the support libraries available that are required to run under Windows. All the program initialization code and such differ significantly. Building a LInux application on an x86 system to run on an M68k processor is a much more reasonable endeavor. You need to review the GNU documentation about processor family options when building cross-platform code. It is too complex to get into here, I think.

I am using windows with Cygwin/gcc installed, trying to compile a program that will run on an M68k processor. Thank you for your reply and please let me know if you have any other ideas about how to accomplish this!

07-14-2009	#5 (permalink)
Rubberman Linux Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: I can be found either 40 miles west of Chicago, or in a galaxy far, far away. Posts: 2,662	Ah. You probably need to install the required GNU components for cross-compiling the m68k targets. Sorry, but I haven't done any cross-compiling on cygwin for non-x86 targets, though it should be feasible, so this is the best I can suggest at this point. __________________ Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.