Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Re: Mac OS X Precompiled Toolchain

[Eugenio J. <ej...@ma...>]

Hi,

I have managed to build the gcc-2.95.3 based cross-compiler toolchain & 
kernel including patches from scratch on Mac OS X a while ago.  Since 
I'm working on OSX and thus on a PPC machine (and not Intel/x86 & 
Linux), this was a fun & interesting process.  Another thing about this 
is, since I don't have a x86 box w/ firewire (nor own a copy of 
windoze), I can't easily format my iPod as a windows iPod w/ a MSDOS 
FS, so I've been trying to get HFS+ support working as well ; this has 
been a bit tougher than I originally expected since the patch I've been 
working with ( from http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ ; based on the 
work from http://sf.net/projects/linux-hfsplus ) doesn't work on 
linux-2.4.20 (regardless what their page says ;-) ; there were 
significant changes between linux-2.4.20 & linux-2.4.21, which I've 
been trying to deal with and fix.

I've put up a sort of mini-HOWTO / script to download & build all the 
bits from scratch on OSX (but it should be more or less applicable for 
people on other platforms), and a current binary toolchain on 
http://homepage.mac.com/ej0/ipodlinux/ (note - I have not run any tests 
to verify the toolchain ; so it's possible there are bugs in it...)

Hopefully this should get more ppl hacking on this, especially on Mac 
OS X & HFS+ support ;-)  I'll write up my linux-2.4.21 / HFS+ 
experiences / progress soon...

-ej

On Dec 14, 2003, at 3:36 PM, David Piasecki wrote:

> I tried following the instructions on 
> http://www.ukos.ch/site/ef_cross.html, but I ran into an error when 
> compiling gcc-3.3. It could be because I didn't know what $target and 
> $prefix to give it. I did the following to configure...
>
> ../../../gcc-3.3/configure --target=arm-elf 
> --prefix=/usr/local/cross/builds/arm/gcc-3.3 -v --with-newlib 
> --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
>
> If someone has any suggestions as to how I might successfully compile 
> it, if it works, I'll send you a binary.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2003, at 3:23 PM, 
> ipo...@li... wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> Did you just use those instructions or were there any other 
>> tips&tricks
>> needed to get things going?
>>
>> Perhaps somewith with a Mac and faster net connection could put 
>> togeter
>> a binary package so we could put it up on sf?  Any takers?
>>
>> cheers,
>> bern.
>>
>> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 21:53, One...@ao... wrote:
>>> I have the Mac OS X binary arm tool chain before you had to pay for
>>> the free GNU package, if necessary I can upload it however I have a
>>> 56k modem so I would like to avoid that if possible :)
>>>
>>> I also found this helpful link if anyone here is trying to compile 
>>> the
>>> arm chain tools for OS X
>>> http://www.ukos.ch/site/ef_cross.html
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jeff N.
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I simply used the binary for the arm toolchain which a link was 
>> provided for
>> on sf. I still have this file. Those instructions are for Mac OS 10.2 
>> so I
>> don't believe people will have any trouble compiling it under 10.3 
>> and such.
>>
>> Jeff N.