[debian-non-standard] native compiling on Debian-Asus

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

mkloeckner at arcor.de wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I sucessfully managed to bootstrap a Debian Lenny image and boot it on my WL500gP using your 2.6.31.1 Kernel. Thank you so far for this! :)
> 
> Now I need to compile little packages for it and want to compile it natively on the box. I tried several toolchains and still dont have success with it. Either I get tons of compilation errors or I get segmentation faults or "cannot run binary" errors.
> 
> I asked the openwrt forum and got a tipp to use this toolchain: http://impactlinux.com/code/firmware/downloads/binaries/native-compiler-mipsel.tar.bz2
> (Forum: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=22123)
> This toolchain works flawlessly on standard openwrt builds, but not on this custom kernel. I get a "cannot run binary" error. :(
> 
> Do you know why it doesnt work an Debian but on openWRT? And why don't the "build-essential" packages by Debian work for this custom kernel?
> Do you know a toolchain which would do the work for me?

If you run Debian, use Debian tools on it.

Debian uses glibc, where OpenWRT uses uClibc as a C library.

They are not compatible, so anything linked with uClibc (OpenWRT) will 
not work on Debian - and it works both ways.

So to compile anything on your Debian (MIPS), just install proper tools:

# apt-get install libc6-dev gcc


And compile natively.

Can't be simpler as that.

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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org