crosscompiler tool chain from i386-linux to powerpc-apple and others

[Ricardo Scachetti Pereira <scachetti at videotron dot ca>]

   Hi, all,

   I have an ANSI C++ application that I want to deploy in different 
platforms/operating systems.
   I'm trying to create a series of crossgcc toolchais to produce 
binaries for the different targets from the same host 
(i686-pc-linux-gnu), but with no success so far.
   I was wondering whether any of you could help me with this.
   I'm trying to follow the instructions from many FAQs but the 
information is a bit scattered. The main one I'm following is from the 
crossGCC FAQ (http://www.sthoward.com/CrossGCC/).
   The targets I'm aiming at are: powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS X), 
sparc-sun-solaris, i386-pc-solaris, i386-pc-freebsd2.
   I managed (I think) to compile binutils for all those platforms, but 
I get stuck when compiling gcc as a cross-compiler to those targets.
   I tried many different versions of gcc and configuration options but 
none worked.
   So before I provide any more details about how I'm doing that, has 
anyone ever produced a tool chain for those combinations of host/target? 
I'm trying to get some info about what versions of each package to use.
   I read that crossgcc is intended for generating binaries for 
embbeded systems. Can it be used for building binaries to complete 
operating systems like I'm trying to do?
   Any help will be greatly appreciated.
   Regards,


Ricardo Scachetti Pereira
Computer Engineer
Lifemapper Distributed Computing Project
http://www.lifemapper.org/



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