Re: Cross compiling without ./configure

[David Boyce]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Galen Seitz <address@hidden> wrote:
> As I mentioned before, building a cross tool chain is not easy.  I strongly
> suggest that you install a tool chain directly on the Solaris system if at
> all possible.  You can find all the packages you need here:
>  http://www.sunfreeware.com/

Any modern Solaris machine may already have the required tooling in
/usr/sfw (stands for "solaris freeware"). Certainly any Solaris 10
system would, and I think Solaris 9 did too.

FWIW many Solaris people prefer the stuff at opencsw.org to the stuff
at sunfreeware.com (I do). It takes a few minutes to install and
configure the pkgutil script and from there on it's a it's a nice
auto-updating system analogous to what most Linux distros have. This
stuff installs into /opt/csw as opposed to sunfreeware which goes into
/usr/local.

The Sun compiler (Sun Studio) is also freely available nowadays so you
have your choice of that or gcc via either of the sites above. I
completely agree with Galen that it's hard to imagine why you'd want
to cross compile to a stable, self-hosting OS like Solaris. Usually
cross development is done for platforms which do not yet exist or
which are too small or simpleminded to host the required tools.

David Boyce