From: <rs...@ba...> - 2007-10-23 10:40:53
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Steven King wrote: > On Monday 22 October 2007 8:35:40 Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: >> Hello all: >> >> I'm trying to get and up to date toolchain for MSP430. I came across >> some >> binary packages, but those were for gcc 3.x and binutils 2.14 or previous >> (can't remember the exact versions right now sorry). >> >> Also I wanted to be able to build the toolchain myself so I could >> package >> it for Debian. Since binutils natively supports msp430 this is not a big >> deal for this package. >> > > I just went thru the same process trying to make rpm's for fedora 7 and > after running into the same problems you did, I took the path of least > resistance; using patches and other files from the cvs repository I > created an updated binutils-2.17, gcc-3.2.3, and libc that support the > 20x2/3 and 22x2/4 devices -- if you or anyone else is interested I can > send the .spec files and patches and you could probably use that as a > basis for creating a .deb. > Thanks Steven for your comments, they are very welcome. Well, sure I'm interested on that work so if you have somewhere to publish it I'll get from there or alternatively you can e-mail them directly to me. I'm planning to place them all together publicly. I'll first look into some other msp430 specialised web in order to join efforts, but if not I maybe can manage to bring one up myself. But I still have some questions to you: Did you had to patch binutils to get msp430 support? or what for exactly?. Have you tried with other (i.e.: more recent gcc versions like gcc 4.x) Thanks a lot for the feedback. Regards, -- Raúl Sánchez Siles |