I looked at building the toolchain a while back to produce a cross compiler for ppc, I have a device that uses that proc. I have build the toolchain in the past, and it's often not trivial.
Recently I discovered the Arduino, and Plocher did a cool piece of code on the Arduino when he hooked up a couple servos to a web cam so he could attach a couple potentiometers to control x/y rotation to be able to pan the web cam. We're planning to have a meeting with SVOSUG where people could build an Arduino, the freeduino from Modern Device. http://moderndevice.com/index.shtml The parts for the freeduino are $10-$15, depending on QTY. There is a java IDE that is used to upload the code to the Arduino, but in order to make that work we need a cross compiler for avr, so we need to build a gcc-avr toolchain for OpenSolaris (i.e., OpenSolaris host, avr target). Before I start down this path, I just thought I would check to see if anyone has produced any cross compilers and if so, any words of advice? As I said, I have build the toolchain before, it's not trivial in some cases, but I am hoping that it's easier nowdays since we have better support for solaris on gcc, and I think Mike Pogue did get some changes putback into the repository through some associative work. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
