Binutils

Overview

In most cases of cross-compiling from one platform to another you need cross binutils, i.e. assembler, linker, and so on.

Building your own binutils

If they are not readily available for your combination of host and target platform, you can compile them from the sources from their home page (http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/))

This is a quite typical configure for the binutils, in particular useful together with fpc:

./configure \
--target=arm-linux \
--prefix=/usr/local/lib/arm-linux \
--bindir=/usr/local/bin --mandir=/usr/local/share/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/info \
--program-prefix=arm-linux \
--disable-werror

for Unix/Linux-like targets, the options target and prefix are fairly straight forward, but not for others.

List of options:

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Binutils", as it stood on 2020-05-03 after a change by E-ric, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.