From: hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) Subject: Re: Cross Compilers? Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 13:37:08 GMT
In article <1993Apr30.014631.7825@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> dboese@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Darcy Boese) writes:
>Here's a good (???) idea... somebody should get a C program which will run
>under any standard UNIX system, which will act as a cross compiler to
>generate a binary for linux source code.
>
>The only reason this comes to mind is that I did a full install of linux
>from the SLS distribution, and with a 105M hard drive there wasn't any
>room to compile anything very large at all...
>
>Or has this already been thought of and done?
How do you think where the Linux C compiler came from? FYI, all
the Linux C/C++ compilers and C/C++ libraries are cross-compiled.
You can even cross-compile kernel.
H.J.