bill@alembic.acs.com (Bill Hatch) (01/19/90)
Subject: gcc/gas/gdb/binutils 386 install There have been several news articles asking about the installation of gcc on 80386 machines under Microport 3.0e, Xenix or interactive Unix. I have successfully installed and tested the GNU software development tools including gcc, gas, gdb, and the binutils (ar, ld, nm, size) on my ALR 386/220 under Microport 3.0e. I copied this installation to an HP Vectra 386 machine under Xenix 3.2 along with the uport C libraries converted to GNU format. This installation has also been successfully tested on some small programs. Prior to the GNU installation, I freed 30 Mb of disk of free disk space to unpack the source and compile the programs. If anyone has any questions about the details of these 2 installations, I will be happy to respond with my "best guess" on the answers. I do not pretend to be an expert; however, the FREE SOFTWARE folks have done such an outstanding job of coding and packaging that a well meaning amateur can stumble through without messing up too badly. Bill Hatch uunet!bts!bill Computational Engineering 14504 Greenview Drive Suite 500 Laurel, Maryland 20708 Phone (301)470-3839 FAX (301)776-5461 Home (301)441-1675
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (01/19/90)
In article <1990Jan19.030718.16736@alembic.acs.com> bill@alembic.acs.com (Bill Hatch) writes: > I have successfully installed and tested [GCC etc...] on my ALR 386/220 > under Microport 3.0e [and] an HP Vectra 386 machine under Xenix 3.2 along > with the uport C libraries converted to GNU format. How much work has to be done to make this something that can be distributed in binary form? Is library conversion an automatic matter, so that you can just drop this in on a new system, or would it require handholding? Are the libraries available without the development kit enough to get it up? What about include files? -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>. / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'