On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, l p wrote:

> HELP! Has anyone ever gotten curl to cross compile for PPC405 with tornado2
> tool chain on a Sun machine? I'm having a hard time getting configure to
> work, because it keeps complaining about not finding gethostbyname even
> though it is in one of the linked libraries. Anyone has tricks/tips on
> cross-compiling?

I have not tried to build curl cross-compiled on that particular platform,
no.

The general and yet very simple approach for cross-compiling is this:

 ./configure --host=my-target-system

I believe I experienced problems with the configure script's way of detecting
the random file, which doesn't work for cross compiles and then I had to use
the --with-random option explicitly and then it worked fine. (I did in fact
very recently build curl 7.10.2 for an XScale-based Linux.)

You mention a "tornado2 tool chain". That sounds VxWorks'ish. Is it? If so,
is that really compliant with all the posix/unix stuff curl might be using?

It complains on gethostbyname you say. Are you saying that configure
complains on it or is it a linker error message?

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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