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title: "Cross compiler"
subtitle: "Setting up under OSX Lion"
tags: [osdev]
For simplicity, I chose to set up a so-called cross compiler for osdeving. In
OSX Lion, this is what I did.
First of all, I installed Xcode from the Mac App store. Since version 4.3,
Xcode doesn't install any command line tools anymore, so this had to be done
manually:
- Open Xcode
- Go the Preferences
- Choose Downloads
- Find Command Line Tools and click Install.
This is better than some earlier versions, though, which use a buggy
c-compiler. An update was required on one of my computers.
Compiling gcc also requires the mpfr package to be installed. This I did with
[Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/).
:::bash
$ brew install mpfr
I downloaded all the sources I needed from [gnu.org](http://gnu.org).
:::bash
$ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.22.tar.gz
$ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.6.3/gcc-core-4.6.3.tar.gz
$ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-5.0.2.tar.gz
$ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.0.tar.gz
$ curl -O http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/download/mpc-0.9.tar.gz
Feel free to use later versions, but if you do, I cannot guarantee that the
code posted in my logs will work for you (it's very likely to work, but not
*guaranteed*). Gmp, mpfr and mpc are floating point libraries that are used by
gcc, so after extracting all archives, they are simply copied into the gcc
source
:::bash
$ mv gmp-5.0.2 gcc-4.6.3/gmp
$ mv mpfr-3.1.0 gcc-4.6.3/mpfr
$ mv mpc-0.9 gcc-4.6.3/mpc
In order not to mess up the source, binutils and gcc were built out of tree.
:::bash
$ mkdir build-binutils
$ cd build-binutils
$ export PREFIX=/usr/local/cross
$ export TARGET=i386-elf
$ ../binutils-2.22/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX --disable-nls
$ make all
$ make install
And the same for gcc, using the new binutils
:::bash
$ cd ..
$ mkdir build-gcc
$ cd build-gcc
$ export PATH=$PATH:$PREFIX/bin
$ ../gcc-4.6.3/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX --disable-nls --enable-languages=c --without-headers
$ make all-gcc
$ make install-gcc
It's really important to run _make all-gcc_ and _make install-gcc_ and __not__
_make all_ and _make install_ here. It probably works anyway - if you ever
manage to get it to actually compile...
And that's it!