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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: gcc cross compiler?
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.202517.933@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 20:25:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jan10.053427.22552@cs.ubc.ca> acton@cs.ubc.ca (Donald Acton) writes:
>
>I was wondering if anyone has a C compiler and linker setup to
>cross-compile on something like a Sun Sparc-4 for an Atari ST. I am in
>the situation where I have 2 1040s at home (no hard disks) and would
>like to do a little software development. I figure it is faster to do
>this on a machine like a Sun at school and then use a high speed modem
>to transfer the executable to a floppy on one machine for testing on
>the other. I thought that in the past someone had done this for the
>gnu cc compiler and if that was the case I was wondering where I might
>ftp the software from. 

If you have a floppy drive in a SPARCstation you can write directly to an
ST-readable floppy. The gnu stuff on atari.archive has makefiles for use as
a cross-compiler as well as running native on Minix and TOS.
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