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Hi,

I am having to port linux to a new architecture. This architecture does not have gcc ported on to it. This does have an ansi c compiler/as/ld.

Has anyone has had any experience/success with building linux with an ansi c compiler. I know it does not build automagically, but any info on deviations/changes/tools would be appreciated a LOT.

thanks in advance,
dominique

On Wed, 2004-05-05 19:26:17 +0530, Dominic VP <[email protected]> wrote in message <018401c432a8$bc7fc080$630210ac@dominc>:

Well, the Linux kernel highly depends on some GCC extensions, so you'll need to make gcc work for your architecture (btw., what arch are you working on?).

With a lot of luck, Intels compiler (icc) may also produce a working kernel image, but it'll probably only work for ia32 and ia64 :)

You'd need to work around a lot of gccisms for the Linux kernel. ...and GNU userland may not easily build with other compilers, too...

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to compile the linux kernel only a 'simple' gcc/binutil version is required ... so the best thing would be to port just the required parts of gcc/binutils

see here for some details:
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/Cross/howto.info

(make sure to compile and install the binutils first)

HTH,
Herbert

PS: I doubt that an ansi compiler (probably not even
C99) will be able to compile linux kernels ...
PPS: please let me know if you succeed ...