New MiNTlib and Friends....

I'm lazy, so once again, I'll share a recent post to the MiNT List about building the latest release of the MiNTLib. Whats news? Support for GCC4 and also support for the Coldfire CPU for the upcoming Firebee! I am by no means as skillful or knowledgeable as Frank Naumann was, who is dearly missed for his support of the platform and shaping MiNTLib, and the kernel, to be what they are today.

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Before this goes up into SpareMiNT, thought it should be tested to have a consensus that the build is good. I have not found any issues, but that does not mean that I did not overlook something obvious and my Falcon is pretty much a test/dev environment rather than 'production.'

Files are here:

http://www.radix.net/~atari/mint/recent/

[ ] mintbin-0.3-4.m68kmint.rpm 31-May-2010 11:54 579k
[ ] mintbin-0.3-4.src.rpm 31-May-2010 12:00 328k

Install this package first to fix a conflict between the older version and the latest MiNTLib.

[ ] mintlib-0.59.1-1.m68kmint.rpm 02-Jun-2010 16:11 961k
[ ] mintlib-0.59.1-1.src.rpm 02-Jun-2010 16:24 1.4M
[ ] mintlib-debug-0.59.1-1.m68kmint.rpm 02-Jun-2010 16:13 1.7M
[ ] mintlib-devel-0.59.1-1.m68kmint.rpm 02-Jun-2010 16:15 1.6M
[ ] mintlib-profile-0.59.1-1.m68kmint.rpm 02-Jun-2010 16:17 1.8M

Here is the MiNTLib packages themselves, install what is needed. They include the Coldfire libs, as well as the 68000 and 68020-60 libs.

[ ] fdlibm-5.3-2.m68kmint.rpm 04-Jun-2010 13:49 109k
[ ] fdlibm-5.3-2.src.rpm 04-Jun-2010 13:49 85k
[ ] pml-2.03-4.m68kmint.rpm 01-Jun-2010 18:10 25k
[ ] pml-2.03-4.src.rpm 01-Jun-2010 18:10 68k

The MiNTLib update will remove math.h, so whichever math lib is being used needs to be upgraded as well. Both PML and Fdlibm include libraries for 68000 / 68020-60 / Coldfire. PML's Coldfire support is from Vincent's patching. I added the Coldfire support to Fdlibm, and have not tested it yet.

[ ] gcc-4.5.0-1.m68kmint.rpm 01-Jun-2010 15:40 6.5M
[ ] gcc-4.5.0-1.src.rpm 03-Jun-2010 14:52 32.8M
[ ] gcc-c++-4.5.0-1.m68kmint.rpm 01-Jun-2010 15:51 9.5M

Finally, if you want to be brave, GCC 4.5.0 for FreeMiNT. I used this to built MiNTLib, so it seems pretty stable. Based on Vincent's latest patch. If this is installed, it will replace GCC 2.95.3, and you will want this MiNTLib and also Binutils 2.20.1.

I used 'black magic' to build this package. It was build with the Cross Compiler in PS3 Linux using a spec file modified to detect whether it is running natively or cross, and then I had to modify the RPM to be totally 3.0 compliant as it was built with RPM 4.4. There were some other tricks employed in there to fix problems with RPM noting the OS used for the build.

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Hopefully today I will post a little tutorial (that might possibly be a tad incomplete, but we'll see) on how to try to setup an environment to try to cross compile RPMs. Right now, I am testing this process with the newly released OpenSSL 1.0.0a and will probably also try this with a rebuild of OpenSSH 5.5p1, to keep us up to date!