What TARGET to use when installing software with ./configure ?

eniv6208 · 12-14-2010, 03:52 PM

I am installing gcc-core, binutils, etc, to cygwin. The goal I am pursuing is to be able to build from a Windows platform, for a Linux target, saying it in other words is to compile programs in a Windows environment to run them in a Linux environment.

The problem is that I need to know what TARGET to choose when running the ./configure. My understanding is that it depends on the target CPU, right?

I need to build gcc-core and all the needed utils, to be able to build later the gcc-linux. Is this correct?

Thanks

eniv6208

bigrigdriver · 12-14-2010, 10:12 PM

From http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-cygwin

Quote:

*-*-cygwin

Ports of GCC are included with the Cygwin environment.

GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.

The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86 cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution, or version 2.20 or above if building your own

eniv6208 · 12-17-2010, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigrigdriver

From http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-x-cygwin

Thank you for your response.
I still have problems with cygwin, I was having an error that said: sed command not found, and looking into this I found a place where they say I need to configure correctly the environment variables before starting up the shell, but they didn't provide the specific variables to configure to avoid this error. Do somebody know what variables are and what value do they need to be initialized with?

Really appreciate your help

Thanks
eniv6208