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<body class='hmmessage'>You've all heard of "Canadian cross"?<BR>
<BR>It is cross-building a cross-compiler.<BR>I'm sitting in Windows. I'm going to build a compiler that is going to run on Linux that is going to target Solaris.<BR>For one example.<BR>
<BR>You've all seen that Apple has switches like so:<BR>
<BR>gcc -arch i386 ppc ppc64 x86_64 hello.c<BR>and poof out comes a binary that runs natively on four architectures<BR>
<BR>I don't like the "inconvenience" of non cross systems and having to have all the machines/OSes just to build the binaries.<BR>I realize that you hit the wall if you actually want to test the results. So cross building only gets so much.<BR>Of course I also don't want to multiply out build times for tools...<BR>
<BR>Ok, well what is the possibility of:<BR>
<BR>cm3 -target NT386<BR>cm3 -target NT386 -target PPC_DARWIN<BR>
<BR>? In my crazy imagination, you have:<BR>
<BR> \cm3\bin\cm3.cmd <BR> %~dp0..\libexec\%processor_architecture%\%TARGET%\cm3.exe %*<BR> <BR>
\cm3\bin\cm3 <BR> #!/bin/sh <BR> dirname(dirname($0))/libexec/`uname whatever`/$TARGET/cm3 $@<BR>
<BR>Thus it becomes POSSIBLE to have an n x m matrix, host x target, and be able to build<BR>"anything" from one environment.<BR>
<BR>Actually the targets could all be merged into one .exe or be .dll/.sos.<BR>Except the code isn't setup for that.<BR>
<BR>Interesting?<BR>
<BR>I guess the hard part is the C code and linking?<BR>The Modula-3 stuff is already setup to do most of this?<BR> (partly by virtue of all that header rewriting that I labeled sleazy)<BR>
<BR> - Jay<BR><br /><hr />Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008' target='_new'>Start sharing!</a></body>
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