Re: Cross compile for SGI IRIX target?

["Matthew Majka" <mmajka at geocontrol dot com>]

> > > My preliminary research shows that it is not possible
> > > to cross compile for a SGI IRIX (6.x) target, so am looking
> > > for any info that I'm wrong!
> > >
> > > Looks like gcc on SGI requires some libraries (free) from SGI
> > > for the final link step (?), which I presume precludes any
> > > cross compiling for IRIX?
> 
>  Aren't the SGI libs available at all ?  When currently Sun and
> SCO deliver their 'Free Unix'es with the system libs, getting
> something similar from SGI would be expected... Anyway the 'Irix'
> is just one of those SVR4/MIPS variations like SNI 'Sinix, the
> Pyramid, Tandem, DDE etc. ones with 'proprietary' names...

You get the IRIX libs with the OS on the Development Libraries
CD.  I didn't know Sun had a "Free Unix".

> may now be missing when the www.mipsabi.org died... Does SGI have
> them still ?  I managed to download them while they still were
> available.

SGI unloaded MIPS.  Start with http://www.mips.com

> > I don't think the GNU assembler or linker support IRIX 6, so
> > that would be the limiting factor at this point.  The assembler
> > does support IRIX 5.3, IIRC, but the linker does not support
> > any versions of IRIX that I know of.
> 
>  Perhaps the situation has been changed... A guy from DDE in
> India worked with the 'traditional-elf32bsmip' and got the GNU
> ld to work with producing normal, shared-libs-using executables
> and statically linked executables. To produce shared libs too...
> He also made new startup/exits, 'crt1.S', 'crti.S' and 'crtn.S'...

For IRIX or another MIPS based Unix clone?

>  I think that it could be possible to build newlib for a generic
> 32-bit 'mips-sysv4', as a static library. I built it for a
> generic 'x86-sysv4' a year or more ago, but the 'mips-sysv4' was
> left untested (no machine available for testing...).



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