Thanks for your quick reply.

Based on your advice and the comments you made I have tried again to run
configure and cross compile for the MIPS system (I also installed OpenSSL).
I have run configure as follows:

[root_at_localhost curl-7.16.2]# ./configure --with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl
--enable-cookies --enable-http --prefix=/chris/curlmv
--host=/opt/hardhat/devkit/mips/fp_le/bin/mips_fp_le --build=mips_fp_le

I am getting the output below.

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for /opt/hardhat/devkit/mips/fp_le/bin/mips_fp_le-ar... no
checking for ar... ar
configure: WARNING: In the future, Autoconf will not detect cross-tools
whose name does not start with the host triplet. If you think this
configuration is useful to you, please write to autoconf_at_gnu.org.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for /opt/hardhat/devkit/mips/fp_le/bin/mips_fp_le-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
checking curl version... 7.16.2
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `mips_fp_le': machine
`mips_fp_le' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub mips_fp_le failed
[root_at_localhost curl-7.16.2]#

Aside from the obvious error I notice that it doesn't seem to be finding
'mips_fp_le-ar' or 'mips_fp_le-strip' in the directory specified, both of
which are present.

Can you offer any further help?

Thanks

Chris
 

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
[mailto:curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2007 7:37 p.m.
To: libcurl development
Subject: Re: Curl Embedded Linux

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Chris Brown wrote:

> I then successfully referenced this library in the makefile for my own
> test application based on simple.c. The problem I have is that I am
> attempting to repeat this process on my MIPS embedded MontaVista Linux
> system which uses mips_fp_le-gcc. When I run ./configure I get the
following output:

Well, I trust you used some options to configure as well?

> sed: invalid command

The curl build requires 'sed' to exist, so you should get that installed.

> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of
> Makefiles... no checking for sed... /bin/sed checking for ar... no

Really 'ar' ? I would think that you'd want a 'mips_fp_le-ar' or similar?

> checking build system type... mkdir: Cannot create directory
> `/tmp/cg678-5572': No such file or directory

This sounds like your build system is crazy or too limited for a normal
build.
Check the config.log file for details but it has to be able to create
temporary files (and directories) for configure to work.

> Can anyone offer any suggestions or point me in the right direction?
> My ultimate intention is to use https posts so I will also need to
> ensure that SSL is working. Please excuse my naivity- as I mentioned
> above I'm new to Linux and its a steep learning curve at the moment.

Well, I happen to work with an ARM linux at the moment. I use a gcc setup
named arm-softfloat-linux-gnu-gcc. To cross-compile curl for my system, I
just have to do this:

  $ ./configure --host=arm-softfloat-linux-gnu
  $ make
  $ make DESTDIR=/rootdir/for/my/target install

This should be pretty much the same for whatever linux target you have, but
it assumes that you have a certain level of tools installed on the build
host.

Hm, I reread your mail. Are you saying you *build* on the embedded target? I
find that a very odd idea since embedded targets are usually way way waaaaay
slower and have less memory etc than even your average several years old PC.
I suggest you go the cross-compile route.

Of course, building *on* the target is just like how you build on any Linux,
you just need to make sure you have all the tools and the correct build
environment setup and present.

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