I've finally got the popcorn hour toolchain to compile on fedora 10.

Here I'll present a step-by-step how-to.

Step 1: Get the toolchain source

First you'll need to get the toolchain source: Syabas NMT (SMP8634) toolchain.

I used the version smp86xx_toolchain.20080505.tar.bz2.

Step 2: Ensure some dependent packages are installed

Next ensure that the following packages are installed, you can use Add/Remove software if you prefer:

There may be other packages you need to install, just install as needed.

Step 3: Build the toolchain

Now, I'll break the building into several steps since this is not so straight forward.

Build Step 1: Extract the toolchain

Build Step 2: make menuconfig

Select Toolchain Options --->
Select Kernel Headers options (Linux 2.6.11.0 kernel headers) --->
Select uCLibc version 0.9.28.3 --->
Select binUtils version 2.17 --->
Select gcc version 4.0.4 --->

Select Exit
Select Exit

Save your new configuration.

Build Step 3: The first make attempt

This will complain about your compiler version (GCC 4.x), this is expected, just ignore it.

It wont take long before this fails complaining that `makeinfo' is missing on your system, although it is.

Build Step 4: Fixing the makefile for makeinfo

The bug here is that makeinfo version 4.12 is being seen as less than 4.9.. We'll just hack the makefile to fix (there is probably a better way, but this works):

(if your not comfortable in vi, use gedit or whatever text editor you like)

Find the line like (your home dir name will be different):

and change it to:

Build Step 5: The second make attempt

Call make again:

When the build is done, the file toolchain-path.env will be created, that contains the environment settings necessary to use the toolchain.

Either make it executable and run it in your shell or source it in you shell before starting any cross compiling.

Running like:

Or sourced like:

Now you're ready to compile..

Typically I have found I need to do the following to build a package for this tool chain..

Building a library for use in your toolchain

I am not sure if these steps are correct, but it's all I have managed to get working.

Let's say we want to build libpcre to use in our toolchain.

First download the library source and extract it.

Before running ./configure, it's best to run:

Then to build, I find I need to pass extra parameters to ./configure like:

The prefix will tell configure where to put the output when a make install is done.

Then the standard make && make install can be done:

This should build and install your library to /toolchain/smp86xx_toolchain.20080505/build_mipsel_nofpu/staging_dir/