cross-compiling for alpha

[few]

Hi,

i used crossdev to build a cross-compiler on x86 for alpha. This one is working, but...

when i tried to run it on the target machine i got
bash: ./3d_3: cannot execute binary file

the reason is:
3d_3: Elf format 64 bit LSB Executable file, Unknown Architecture, not stripped
while systems ls for example is:
/bin/ls: COFF format alpha dynamically linked, demand paged executable or object module stripped - version 3.13-14

I found out that one can change the target format with -Wl,--oformat=...

this gives the supported formats:
# alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-objdump -i
BFD header file version (GNU Binutils) 2.18
elf64-alpha
(header little endian, data little endian)
alpha
ecoff-littlealpha
(header little endian, data little endian)
alpha
elf64-little
(header little endian, data little endian)
alpha
elf64-big
(header big endian, data big endian)
alpha
elf32-little
(header little endian, data little endian)
alpha
elf32-big
(header big endian, data big endian)
alpha
srec
(header endianness unknown, data endianness unknown)
alpha
symbolsrec
(header endianness unknown, data endianness unknown)
alpha
tekhex
(header endianness unknown, data endianness unknown)
alpha
binary
(header endianness unknown, data endianness unknown)
alpha
ihex
(header endianness unknown, data endianness unknown)
alpha

elf64-alpha ecoff-littlealpha elf64-little elf64-big
alpha elf64-alpha ecoff-littlealpha elf64-little elf64-big

elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex
alpha elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex

so 2 questions:
1) is one of the supported formats the format used on the target machine (which one?)?
2) if so how do i get my toolchain into this format? (is adding the linker option in make.conf and recompiling enough?)


thanks for your help


PS: the target machines processors:
32 x Alpha EV7 (21364) - 1150MHz, 64kB-I + 64KB-D L1, 1.75MB L2
and its os:
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B

[eccerr0r]

How did you invoke crossdev? did you target for tru64 (not linux)? The binary file formats are different, it looks like tru64 needs coff binaries and not elf.

I'm not sure how well crossdev works for cross OS, though I do recall using it to build avr-gcc...

At one point I built gcc for my DECstation, and needed to run

mipsel-netbsd-dec-gcc

to compile binaries for that NetBSD machine with my Linux x86 box.
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[alex.blackbit]

few,

you have a nice piece of computing hardware there. would you like to tell us what you do with this machine?
any why do you need crossdev? this baby should compile _EVERYTHING_ in time.

[few]

Thanks for your replies.

[alex.blackbit]

few,

you could try to bootstrap portage. but i am quite sure nobody before tried that on tru64.
good luck.