RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: cross-compiling Axiom

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Bill Page wrote:

| But I still do not understand how you can talk about cross-
| compilation and GCL. When GCL compiles some lisp source code
| it produces intermediate C code which, yes could in principle
| be compiled for another architecture, but then it immediately
| attempts to link the generated object code into the running
| GCL image. If you are attempting cross-compilation this is
| not possible because the running GCL image is not compatible
| with the object code produced by gcc.
|
| What am I missing?

I believe you're confusing "cross-compiling GCL" and "building a
GCL cross-compiler".  In my Axiom work, I'm interested in the former.

-- Gaby