Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:46:41 +1000 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Jean-Marc Lienher <jml@oksidizer.com> Subject: Re: Alternative compiler toolchain ? Message-ID: <200607011146.41418.agh@tpg.com.au> In-Reply-To: <000f01c69ca5$02fa8ff0$6400a8c0@s2003> References: <000f01c69ca5$02fa8ff0$6400a8c0@s2003>
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On Saturday 01 July 2006 10:26, Jean-Marc Lienher wrote: > Hi all, G'Day, > I'm new to FreeBSD, I was using Linux since 1997. > But I decided to switch to the Daemon and leave the Penguin on > his Iceberg. > (Yes, for those who are reading the hidden e-mail headers, > I'm also using MS-Windows :-) Welcome aboard then. (Yes, for those who are reading the hidden e-mail headers, I'm also using Krappy^H^H^H^H^H Kmail :-) > After a (too?) quick look at the FreeBSD source code, I've seen that > the GNU compiler toolchain was used to compile the kernel and other > part of the OS. As I understand it, GCC provided very good optimization code for an open-source project plus it is supported a $%@ load of platforms. > I would like to know if there is another compiler toolchain > (C compiler, assembler and linker) which is able to build the i386 > FreeBSD and which is released under the BSD, MIT or any other > non-viral license ? Well there's TenDRA[1]. I think someone was once working on getting it to build the base system..... [1]ten15.org or tendra.org. They are both forks of the original TenDRA project. Chatting to some friendlies in #TenDRA[2] on freenode suggests that there work is still to young to even build ELF binaries on FreeBSD. So it might have been ten15.org [2]TenDRA as in tendra.org and not ten15.org. Yes it's all !&$#*^# confusing. -Alastair
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