Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken compiled for familiar+ipaq available.

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 8/27/06, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8/15/06, john <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I would be very interested in learning a good way to cross compile
> > eggs. I was building them by hand but realised it was easier to run
> > chicken-setup from my Zaurus and build them on board. This obviously
> > requires the ability to run gcc on the target device and takes a bit
> > of time!
>
> Hi!
>
> You might get something working by passing -cc and -ld options via
> "-csc-option" to chicken-setup, but this will probably not work for all
> cases.
>
> We are currently heavily simplifying the build-system and I hope
> to be able to massage the makefiles enough to generate a proper
> "cross"-chicken (i.e. where chicken-setup + csc generate target binaries).
> Will need some time, though.

Being able to cross-compile eggs will be great.  I'm also using
chicken directly on a Zaurus.  I installed arm-debian on a CF card to
be able to have a compiler etc.  Chicken 2.41 doesn't compile so far -
I get a gcc "internal error" with gcc 4.0.2.  Figured I would try next
with an older gcc.