Re: your mail

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:07:02PM +0800, chenrui wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>          When I cross-compile the ncurses-5.9 lib. I meet with 2 problems.i
> have no idea but turn to you.
> 
>  
> 
> 1.       configure with " ./configure --host=mips-unknown-linux-gnu
> --with-build-cc=/cross-tools/gcc-4.3.3/build_mips/staging_dir/usr/bin/mips-l
> inux-uclibc-gcc --with-shared --without-ada --without-progs  --without-tests
> --without-cxx-binding", then "make".but I found the libncurses.so.5.9 is not
> mips architect,but x86-64 style. What should I do to compile my style lib.

That doesn't look right.  The build-cc value should be for the host's
native (not cross) compiler.  It's used to build a utility that creates
a table.

You'll run into problems with "--with-shared", since I've not done anything
in that area.  A part of the shared-library configuration is the
variations on file-naming used for various platforms, and isn't setup
for cross-compiling.  I suppose you could use the --with-system-type
option to help with that, but then there's still the problem of determining
what the convention would be for the mips platform that you're targeting.

I've used a cross-compiler for djgpp for a while, which I built, and
pre-built packages for mingw32.  Technically the latter could support
shared libraries.
 
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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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