GNU crosscompiler tools for ARM11

[hvreddy1110]

Hi,
Does anybody developed GNU crosscompiler tools for ARM11.
If so please let me know the versions of the tools you used.
Because i am trying to develop an application which has to run on IMX31/(ARM11). My host system is with suse10 and Intel processor.

Thanks ,

Regards,
Harsha

[KenJackson]

Hey, sorry I missed this question earlier. I've never used an ARM machine, but I compile and use GCC cross compilers that run on Linux and build code for Windows (Mingw32) and AVR (Atmel microcontrollers).

Looking in the gcc-4.1.1 source code, I see gcc/config/arm/arm-cores.def contains a bunch of architecture-specific stuff including 60 apparently supported core variants: strongarm110, arm1136j-s, etc.

You'll have to know the canonical architecture name of the ARM target you are building for. The config.guess script will help you figure it out, which may be armeb-unknown, arm-unknown, arm-unknown-riscos, etc.

This is how I build my cross compiler for AVR:

1. Build binutils first (substantially the same as gcc) and install
2. Untar the gcc-VER source into /usr/local/src/gcc-VER (you can put it whereever you want)
3. Create a subdirectory 'build-avr'
4. In the subdirectory run
   ../configure --target=avr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --disable-shared --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-libssp
   (Note that there is currently an outstanding bug with libssp for embedded targets)
5. make
6. make install
   This puts the tools in subdirectories of /usr/local/avr and puts copies in /usr/local/bin, but the copies have names like avr-gcc instead of gcc.

Then when I compile code in my project, I set variables in my Makefile (as and ld come from binutils):
CC := avr-gcc
AS := avr-as

Enjoy!