Comments on: Zaurus ARM Cross Compiler on OS X (Intel)

By: Nikolaus Schaller

Nikolaus Schaller — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:40:49 +0000

Well, indeed the old PowerPC binary was working well enough on an Intel Mac in emulation mode (Rosetta!) so that I didn’t have the need to rebuild the compiler last year. So I did it I think back in March 07 (without knowing this page and thread).

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:34:28 +0000

Yes, Nikolaus, great to see the Intel version is online! Last time I checked only the PowerPC binary was available. That was also the reason I looked into compiling for Intel…

By: Nikolaus Schaller

Nikolaus Schaller — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:42:15 +0000

You can even download a precompiled binary of gcc 2.95.3 including Objective-C from http://www.quantum-step.com/wiki.php?page=Compiler which saves you a lot of compilation time.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:38:35 +0000

I wasn’t making a QT gui for this setup, I was actually using SDL. The only reason QT got involved is that I needed to -lqte for zaurus qtopia SDL programs to build! I know it’s possible to make qt apps w/o moc, but that’s no fun…

Come to think of it, we’d need tmake too, right? Geez, getting a fully functional dev setup on intel seems impossible.

Has anyone built gcc3.x for intel mac, and then tried to build qtopia? I got gcc3.x built (after 2-3 potentially detrimental hacks). Qtopia still wouldnt go though. After a few hacks in the qtopia code I got it to build most of the way, but gave up cuz I think the gcc3 modifications were a bad idea.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:32:00 +0000

Thanks for the hints, Taylor. Any idea where I can get Intel binaries of the moc and uic tools? Those are missing here. AFAIK the Qt3 tools won’t work with Qt2…

By: Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:13:34 +0000

Sorry, I should have said: To build qtopia apps for zaurus on the INTEL mac while avoiding gcc4.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:11:48 +0000

To build qtopia apps for zaurus on the mac:

1. Set up the ARM cross compiler as above.
2. Get the nice new zgcc2 setup, we are concerned primarily with the “include” pack.
3. Get qtopia/zaurus related header files from this pack, put them on mac.
4. Copy all of the libraries from your zaurus onto the mac.
5. Set up proper environment variables to point to locations of all the files you just ripped.

To sanify your build environment, you can look at the scripts provided by zgcc2 for a starting point to see what is required.

Now you should be able to compile zaurus-qtopia code on your mac (but not run it there of course)

In summary, you are using your mac ARM toolchain to build directly against the libaries on your zaurus.

In the end it may be easier/faster to just use zgcc2,ssh,sshfs/nfs/samba if your compile times are short anyway.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:10:31 +0000

No, sorry. No progress there. I tried the skipnative variable too, but to no avail. Same problem with moc. It might be possible to compile the meta object compiler directly with GCC 4.x, but I haven’t tried it yet.

By: matthis

matthis — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:16:29 +0000

I was wondering if you had been able to build the cross-compile part of qte/qtopia with the script. The base script has a “skipnative” variable, which will go to the cross-compile directly if set to something else than 0. I set that, but still got an error when trying to build the zaurus part. (It says unable to execute the file “moc”, which is no surprise as the file is an ARM binary….)

By: matthis

matthis — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:50:11 +0000

Thank you very much for your reply! I’m not that profficient in these kind of things, so I guess I try to build qtopia for the zaurus, and go with debian for testing. Maybe with qemu.
Regards,