Hi,
i wanted to use glibc-gcc to cross compile from a ubuntu machine (2.6.35) to a mips32r2 platform. While checking the man pages for gcc I can see that there are options like -march which can be set to mips32r2. Does that mean that I dont need to download and build a cross compiler? Can I use the one installed in my machine to cross compile for mips. If this is possible can some one please type out the entire command to compile a simple hello world program for mips

Versions of my utilities are:
kernel : 2.6.35
gcc: 4.4.5.
glibc: 2.12.1
binutils: 2.20.51

Thanks

Have you heard of crosstool-ng before? http://crosstool-ng.org/
I have used this in the past, and worked very well for what I needed to do.

I have heard of crosstool-ng, but that was not my doubt. What I wanted to know was if I want to cross compile for mips, using glibc-gcc do I need to build a cross compiler or can I use the one installed in my PC.

Thanks

You need a cross compiler. In fact, you need a cross toolchain, and to create one, I strongly recommend Crosstool-NG.

--- rod.

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Thanks for saying the same thing I did, in a nutshell

I think my language skills are worse than my linux :P. Let me try to rephrase my question. In the man page for gcc there is something called MIPS Options. What is it?