Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Help on maxima cross-compile

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Mario Giammarco <address@hidden> writes:

> Il lun, 2003-01-06 alle 18:12, Camm Maguire ha scritto:
> > Greetings!  Good to hear of your plans.
> > 
> > To my understanding, you will pretty much have to use GCL to get
> > maxima running on mips at present.  Under Debian, gcl/maxima is fully
> > supported and passes all tests, at least on top of gcc.   I'd try
> > something like the following with your new compiler:
> > 
> > 1) export CC=<your cc>
> > 2) apt-get -q source gcl (put unstable in your apt sources.list)
> > 3) cd gcl-2.5.0.cvs20020625
> > 3.5) apt-get -q install libgmp3-dev
> > 4) ./configure --enable-dynsysgmp --disable-statsysbfd --enable-dlopen
> >     (--enable-debug, if you want)
> > 5) make
> > 6) cd ..
> > 
> > -- for current "stable" maxima
> > 
> > 7) apt-get -q source maxima
> > 8) cd maxima-5.6b
> > 9) edit configure, set GCLDIR to $(pwd)/../gcl-2.5.0.cvs20020625
> > 11) ./configure
> > 12) make
> > 13) make test
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Good luck, and please drop us a line to let us know how its going.
> 
> Hello,
> I am having some problems in compiling.
> But I suppose I have a bigger "logical" problem.
> I try to explain myself better: the agenda vr3 pda does not have a
> native compiler. So I use my x86 linux box to CROSS COMPILE software and
> generate software for mips architecture.
> So if I am thinking right I need to create an x86 executable of gcl
> compiler that can be used to produce a mips executable of maxima.
> I hope you can continue helping me, I need very much a pocket symbolic
> calculator!

I believe you will run into some problems when cross-compiling.  You
can compile all the objects just fine by pointing gcl at your gcc
cross compiler.  But part of gcl's build, and maxima's, entails
loading and executing these objects (i.e. initializing the lisp core),
so you would at least need a mips emulator, which I doubt exists.
Your best bet I'd think would be to setup your pda to mount a larger
filesystem via nfs from another box, with a true mips development
environment installed.  Compile there, and your pda should be able to
run the produced executable. 

Take care,

> Thanks again,
> 
> -- 
> Mario Giammarco <address@hidden>
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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