Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Unable to build binutils hosted on i686 targeting linux ("C compiler cannot create executables")

[Tony Theodore]

Hi Brett,

> On 6 Apr 2016, at 09:44, Brett Douville <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I've downloaded and built gcc for MXE, basically following the instructions 
> given here: 
> http://bitthunder.org/misc/2014/07/01/build-arm-gcc-toolchain-for-windows.html
> 
> With a couple of modifications (in particular, the dependency on OpenSSL 
> seems not to work, since it does "openssl --help" -- openssl only appears to 
> support "openssl help").
> 
> In any case, it built GCC and now I'm trying to build binutils from source to 
> run under MinGW32.
> 
> I am configuring with the following line:
> 
> configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32.static --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 
> --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu \
> 
>     --prefix=~/toolchain/tc --enable-interwork --enable-multilib 
> --enable-target-optspace \
>     --with-float=soft --disable-werror --with-pkgversion="mytc v1.0.0"
> 
> 
> And then invoking make. 
> 
> However, this yields the following error:
> 
> "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"
> 
> Any ideas?

Have a quick look at the following matrix:

http://crosstool-ng.org/#canadian_build

You only need to specify host (and optionally build) to achieve what you’re 
trying to do. 

Cheers,

Tony