[Freemint-list] Cross Compiling Freemint

[Alan Hourihane]

On 26/10/16 12:56, mfro at mubf.de wrote:
>
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2016 um 08:54 Uhr
>> Von: "Thorsten Otto" <admin at tho-otto.de>
>> An: freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org
>> Betreff: Re: [Freemint-list] Cross Compiling Freemint
>>
>> On Wednesday 26 October 2016 08:27:23 Markus Fröschle wrote:
>>> The MiNT build system is a little idiosyncratic, at best, and could well
>>> deserve a massive overhaul, IMHO. I have been searching for the "magic
>>> keyword" as well for a while that e.g. would make "make installdir" (or
>>> similar) work, but it's just not there.
>>>
>> The problem with this it that this system is not only used by MiNT, but by all 
>> projects hosted there (mintlib, gemlib, cflib, toswin2 etc).
> Actually, it would be nice if that would really be the case. You are right, 
> the basic structure is very similar, but there are lots of differences.
>
> Only a few examples: gemlib isn't set up for cross compiling at all, mintlib likes
> to see a "make CROSS=yes"while freemint requires 
> "M68K_ATARI_MINT_CROSS=yes make". The mintbin package prefers another flavour and
> contains a classic automake-based infrastructure.
>

I beg to differ here. I use cross-compiling to build gemlib/cflib/gemma,
mintlib, fdlibm and FreeMiNT. Apart from fdlibm, the others do use "make
CROSS=yes".

Alan.