AVAILABLE CONFIGURATIONS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ arm-defconfig Builds an ARM toolchain using gcc 3.4.5 arm-defconfig-4.2.4 Builds an ARM toolchain using gcc 4.2.4 NOTE: At present, there are issues with some of the binutils programes (arm-elf-objcopy in particular) that cause Floating point exceptions when trying to build NuttX bfin-defconfig-4.2.4 Builds an Blackfin toolchain using gcc 4.2.4 h8300_config Builds an H8/300 toolchain using gcc 3.4.5 m68hc11-config Builds an hc11 toolchain using gcc 3.4.5 m68k-config Builds an M68K toolchain using gcc 3.4.5 sh-defconfig Builds an SH-1/2 toolchain using gcc 3.4.5 GENERAL BUILD STEPS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1. CD to the correct directory. Change to the directory just above the NuttX installation. If is where NuttX is installed, then cd to /.. 2. Get and Install the buildroot Module a. Using a release tarball: cd /.. Download the appropriate buildroot package. unpack the buildroot package rename the directory to buildroot b. Using CVS Check out the misc/buildroot module. CVS checkout instructions: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@nuttx.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nuttx login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@nuttx.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nuttx co -P misc/buildroot Move the buildroot Source Tree and create the archive directory mv misc/buildroot . Make the archive directory: mkdir archive The /../buildroot is where the toolchain is built; The /../archive directory is where toolchain sources will be downloaded. 3. Make sure that NuttX is configured cd /tools ./configure.sh 4. Configure and Make the buildroot cd buildroot cp configs/ .config make oldconfig make This will download the large source packages for the toolchain and build the toolchain. The resulting binaries will be under buildroot/build_. There will also be a large build directory called something like toolchain_build_; this directory can be removed once the build completes successfully. Where is one of the configuration files listed above and is an archtecture name. Examples: build_m32c, build_arm_nofpu, etc. Cygwin GCC BUILD NOTES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Cygwin, the buildroot 'make' command will fail with an error like: "... build/genchecksum cc1-dummy > cc1-checksum.c opening cc1-dummy: No such file or directory ..." This is caused because on Cygwin, host executables will be generated with the extension .exe and, apparently, the make variable "exeext" is set incorrectly. A work around after the above occurs is: cd toolchain_build_/gcc-4.2.4-initial/gcc # Go to the directory where error occurred mv cc1-dummy.exe cc1-dummy # Rename the executable without .exe rm cc1-checksum.c # Get rid of the bad generated file Then resume the buildroot make: cd - # Back to the buildroot make directory make # Restart the build GCC is built twice. First a initial, "bootstap" GCC is produced in toolchain_build_/gcc-4.2.4-initial, then the final GCC is produced in toolchain_build_/gcc-4.2.4-final. The above error will occur twice: Once for the intial GCC build (see above) and once for the final GCC build. For the final GCC build, the workaround is the same except that the directory will be toolchain_build_/gcc-4.2.4-final/gcc.