Re: [Mingw-users] [berndj@prism.co.za: Building GCC 3.3.1 cross-compiler - help!]

[Bernd J. <ber...@us...>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:37:26AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Did you research 
> http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=active&q=gcc+0xdeadbeef&btnG=Google+Search

Huh?  No - which one of the 779 hits?

There must be something I'm missing - plenty other people seem to be
doing this just fine.  I don't see anything glaring at me in the FAQ. :(

> Earnie.
> 
> Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Okay, I've finally given up and now have to ask the great mailing list
> > god for help.
> > 
> > I'm trying to build a cross-compiler, host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > target=i386-mingw32 with GCC 3.3.1 plus mingw patches.  But the programs
> > it produces crash.
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > 
> > int main()
> > {
> > 	while (1) {
> > 		printf("hello, world!\n");
> > 	}
> > }

BTW taking the while (1) out, leaving just the printf and adding a
"return 0;" changes nothing.  All-black window for a split second, then
nothing.

> > If I compile this like so:
> > /usr/cross/bin/i386-mingw32-gcc -mconsole foo.c -o foo.exe
> > it compiles without error, and ls -ul shows that it indeed used the
> > i386-mingw versions of as and ld I have installed (build from sources
> > that claim "GNU assembler 2.13.90.0.20 20030319", IOW hjl's "Linux"
> > binutils).
> > 
> > But when I try wineconsole foo.exe, I just get a black window that
> > appears for a few video-frames, then dies.  So maybe wine is broken...
> > no.  I downloaded foo.exe onto a "real" windows machine, and there too
> > it crashes.  Something about memory at 0xdeadbeef could not be "written"
> > (windows' quotes, not mine).
> > 
> > What else am I doing that's stupid?
> > 
> > Here is how I configured GCC (from an RPM spec file):
> > 
> > $RPM_BUILD_DIR/gcc-3.3/configure --srcdir=$RPM_BUILD_DIR/gcc-3.3 \
> >         --prefix=/usr/cross \
> >         --mandir=/usr/cross/i386-mingw32/man \
> >         --infodir=/usr/cross/i386-mingw32/info \
> >         --target=i386-mingw32 \
> >         --with-gcc \
> >         --with-as=/usr/cross/bin/i386-mingw32-as \
> >         --with-ld=/usr/cross/bin/i386-mingw32-ld \
> >         --with-slibdir=/lib \
> >         --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/cross/i386/mingw32/include/g++-v3 \
> >         --without-x \
> >         --disable-nls \
> >         --disable-win32-registry \
> >         --disable-shared \
> >         --enable-threads \
> >         --enable-languages=c,c++ \
> >         --enable-libgcj \
> >         --disable-java-awt \
> >         --enable-java-gc=boehm \
> >         --disable-libgcj-debug \
> >         --enable-interpreter \
> >         --enable-hash-synchronization \
> >         --enable-sjlj-exceptions \
> >         --with-dwarf3 \
> >         --with-system-zlib
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > bernd

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