Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Found Solution for avr-gcc path problem

[Dale Seaburg]

Hey,  way to go Gunner!  Perseverance pays off!  Excellent work.

Dale Seaburg

Gunnar Henne wrote:
> 
> Hello Peter,
> 
> Peter Fleury wrote:
> 
> > I finally found the reason why avr-gcc added a strange prefix to
> > the pathnames in the *.obj file.
> >
> > It was a missing Windows Registry entry which is needed to
> > correctly translate pathnames into Windows drive:/directory/file.
> 
> Then my thought concerning the registry was right. :-)
> 
> Nevertheless I have put great work into building an avr-gcc without
> using the cygwin environment. It was very hard until I found the simple
> solution.
> 
> I tried following:
> 1)
> Installing Cygwin-Tools (complete) plus Mingw32-gcc
> -> during make a lot of unresolved references of the linker
> 
> Tries 2) and 3) aimed at getting a cross-compiler from linux to win32,
> which should generate the avr-gcc on linux
> 
> 2)
> Downloading Mingw32 gcc-patches from the net, trying to bild a
> linux-hosted i386-mingw32-gcc
> -> failed during making libio
> 
> 3) Using my gcc-snapshot. Apply no patches, configuring for mingw32,
> making installing -> works. Using my binutils snapshot -> same.
> Compiling and installing the mingw-runtime and w32api from www.ming.org
> -> libkernel32.a ist missing some win32 Functions -> no executable can
> be generated
> 
> 4) Installing an Cygwin-System on my NT box, but leaving out binutils,
> gcc, loader, linker, libraries. Installing those from mingw32
> (Downloaded in binary from www.mingw.org). Making symbolic links from
> i386-mingw32-gcc to gcc, same with binutils. Configuring for target=avr
> --host=i386-cygwin --target=i386-mingw32. Replacing ln in Makefile with
> cp. Put fork, kill and signal dummy-functions in gcc/collect2.cpp. That
> was it!
> 
> Now I have a mingw32 based avr-gcc, like in Volker Oth's distribution. I
> did the same for binutils. Using the cygwin-environment I compiled the
> avr-libc.
> 
> On monday I will replace the cygwin binaries with the mingw32 ones.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Gunnar