Re: Cross-compiling

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:37:06 EDT 
Josiah Avery <josiahavery@hotmail.com> wrote:

>     While the C source itself is realtively portable, the
> executable image produced on one platform is by no mean gaurunteed
> ( nor is it even expected ) to run under another. Many factors
> such as forgien file systems, os dependant hardware/memory
> restrictions, etc are the cause for this. The only solution I can
> think of is writing code with an OS independant language ( ie java
> ), else good luck.

GCC explicitly supports cross compilation.  Its not trivial to set
up, and requires significant fiddling, but it does work.

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