Re: [Mingw-users] How to build a cross compiler

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Hmm...

Where did you install MinGW??  MinGW can't live in the bin directory of 
MSYS.  See ``start /doc/msys/README.rtf''.

Earnie.

Chris Bishop wrote:
> Earnie,
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion.  I have re-installed MinGW and MSys so
> details are now:
> 
> My system:
>            Windows 2000 SP 3, on AMD Athlon XP1700+, 256MB RAM
> Installed:
>            MinGW-2.0.0.3.exe
>            MSYS-1.0.9-2003.06.05-1.exe
> Obtained copies of:
>            binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1-src.tar.gz
>            gcc-3.2.3-20030504-1-src.tar.gz
> Placed these in directory:
>            ~/xmingw
> Changed directory to:
>            ~/xmingw
> Executed:
>            gzip -dc binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1-src.tar.gz | tar xf -
>            mv binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1-src binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1
>            cd binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1 && ./configure \
>                    --target=i386-pc-linux-gnu \
>                    --prefix=/opt/xmingw32 \
>                    > ../binutils-configure.log 2>&1
>            cd binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1 && \
>                    make "CFLAGS=-2 -O2" > ../binutils-build.log 2>&1
> (Note: 'mv' line is because binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1-src.tar.gz
> unzips atypically to binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1-src rather than
> binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1 and I like to keep things tidy!)
> 
> There does not appear to be anything unexpected in the
> binutils-configure.log.
> 
> But the make now fails with the relevant lines in binutils.build.log
> being:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kit/xmingw/binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1/intl'
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  intl-compat.c
>       0 [main] sh 1316 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to sh.exe.stackdump
> make[2]: *** [intl-compat.o] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> and the sh.exe.stackdump is now:
> 
> Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=71090DBE
> eax=715C8F73 ebx=715C8984 ecx=715CD000 edx=715CC77E esi=715C8FFE edi=715C8984
> ebp=0022E208 esp=0022E200 program=F:\MSys\bin\sh.exe
> cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0038 gs=0000 ss=0023
> Stack trace:
> Frame     Function  Args
> 0022E208  71090DBE  (715C8FFE, 715C877C, 0A01ACF3, 71002BAF)
> 0022E238  71090C75  (715C8984, 715C877C, 0022E5D8, 71043D35)
> 0022E5D8  71043D47  (0A01ACFD, 715C9B94, 0022F9B8, 710620C8)
> 0022F9B8  710620D8  (00000000, 0A019288, 0A0192F0, 0A019838)
> 0022F9F8  71063C9A  (00000000, 00000003, 0A019288, 0A0192F0)
> 0022FA28  710114BB  (0A019288, 0A0192F0, 0A019838, 710A5020)
> 0022FA48  7108DB92  (0A019288, 0A0192F0, 0A019838, 710AA608)
> 0022FB18  004127A4  (0A019288, 0A0192F0, 0A019838, 0042B3C4)
> 0022FB74  00412706  (0A019410, 00000000, 0A0191B0, FFFFFFFF)
> 0022FBF4  00411CA7  (0A018D00, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF, 00000000)
> 0022FC54  0040E9C6  (0A018CE8, 00000000, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF)
> 0022FCA4  004499BB  (0A018728, 004022F9, 00000004, 00402F6E)
> 0022FCD4  00403180  (715B3A94, 710A5368, 0022FD74, 00401858)
> 0022FD74  00401873  (00000003, 715B3CB4, 0A010278, 00000000)
> 0022FE70  71004FA8  (00000000, 00000000, 00000006, 8113BDC8)
> 0022FF40  710051F1  (004011C8, 00000006, 811A3B40, 811A39E0)
> End of stack trace (more stack frames may be present)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Chris Bishop
> 
> Monday, June 9, 2003, 11:17:46 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> EB> Chris Bishop wrote:
> 
>>>Luke and others who responded to my original message,
>>>
>>>Many thanks for your offer of advice etc.  Just got back to this after
>>>having to work on other things.
>>>
>>>To repeat what my needs are - I need a tool chain that executes under
>>>Windows 2000 to build applications to run on i386 linux.
>>>
>>>My system:
>>>           Windows 2000 SP 3, on AMD Athlon XP1700+, 256MB RAM
>>>Installed:
>>>           MinGW-2.0.0.3.exe
>>>           MSYS-1.0.8.exe
> 
> 
> EB> Please try the latest MSYS Snapshot. See 
> EB> http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml for references to the snapshot.
> 
> EB> Thanks,
> EB> Earnie.
> 
> 
> 
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