COMPILING binaries on ITANIUM machines for a target PA-RISC architecture

[lucienck]

Hello!

A quick question in simplistic terms.
Does anyone know if, on an Itanium architecture, you can compile a binary for a target PA-RISC architecture. The aim is to keep only one development machine (i.e. ITANIUM) but deploy binaries to both ITANIUM AND PA-RISC machines.

I have seen many discussions about trying to RUN PA-RISC-compiled binaries on ITANIUM but this is not what I need.

Let me know your thoughts.

Regards
Lucien.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Lucien,

Depends on what you need - there is planned limited support through XPADE which is part of ARIES:

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801/?ciid=babe0bfb7d779110VgnVCM100000275d6e10RCRD

But it is very clear that it is not a replacement for a PA-RISC dev environment (and in fact the binaries it produces at inital release won't even run on a HP9000 server)

Still - take a look as it might fit your need.

HTH

Duncan

[Steven Schweda]

I've never tried it, but using GCC and GNU
bintools, you might be able to whip up a
cross-compiler/linker which would work.

Were you planning to do no actual testing on
a PA-RISC system? Sounds overly optimistic.

[lucienck]

Thanks for your quick responses gents!

I have just had a look at XPADE but I think it won't do what we actually require. It contains a line stating that it cannot create version 11.11 binaries which is the version required on our target machine when running "uname -a".

And, as for testing, we have seperate testing boxes for PA-RISC and ITANIUM, we were just hoping to have only one source code environemnt.

It's looking as though we ought just to maintain our proper seperate development environments/machines.

Thanks very much indeed for your comments!

Cheers
Lucien.

[Dennis Handly]

You might want to provide feedback on the aries web page about your needs.

It also depends on how supported you want to be.
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801?ciid=e2086d6e1de021106d6e1de02110275d6e10RCRD

[Steven Schweda]

> And, as for testing, we have seperate
> testing boxes for PA-RISC and ITANIUM, we
> were just hoping to have only one source
> code environemnt.

What's stopping you? NFS works between
PA-RISC and IA64 systems, I believe. It's
easier, of course, if your builders segregate
the architecture-specific product files, so
that you can use one source tree for multiple
system types.