How to build applications for an embeded linux target using newlib ?

[mschmid at ascona dot de]

Hi

I have built a crossgcc running on cygwin for powerpc target.
With this crossgcc i successfuly built a linux kernel for my embeded
powerpc target.
Now i want to build applications to run on this linux system.
Therefore i built newlib with the following configuration:

--target=powerpc-eabi-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-cygwin
--build=i686-pc-cygwin

I did run make and make install successfuly.
Now i have multiple directories with the built libraries.
I use the libc from the "lin" directory.
I am able to build a simple application using libc and libnosys.
But which files do i need to link against my applications if i want to use
system specific things like fork(), mkdir(), etc. .

Does newlib provide this special stubs for linux within a library ?
What is libgloss for ?
Is it at all possible to build applications for linux with newlib or is it
better to use glibc ?
I searched the www, but i did not find answers to all my questions.

Appreciate for any hints or information.

Thanks
Mathias



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