Deploy PIC32MX gcc toolchain on Solaris

• The toolchain binutils-2.36, gcc-10.3.0, newlib-1.4 no longer works after upgrade from SRU62 to SRU63, since libisl was upgraded from version 15 to version 23. Re-compilation with libisl 23 fixed the problem.
• The toolchain no longer works on s11u4sru37 due to missing /usr/lib/libmpc.so.2 and /usr/lib/libmpfr.so.1 libraries - /opt/mipsel/libexec/gcc/mipsel/4.5.2/cc1 depends on them. Reason being the libraries were upgraded to /usr/lib/limpc.so.3 and /usr/lib/libmpfr.so.4 respectively.

To workaround the issue, missing libraries were copied from s11u4sru30 where both old as well as new versions of those libraries are available. Also, new tool chain has been built based on binutils 2.36, gcc 10.3.0, newlib 4.1.0.

• start building new one

$ export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH
$ mkdir ~/projects/gcc-mips-10.3.0/
$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips-10.3.0/
$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.36.tar.gz -O /tmp/binutils-2.36.tar.gz
$ tar xvpf /tmp/binutils-2.36.tar.gz
$ mkdir build-binutils-el-2.36
$ cd build-binutils-el-2.36
$ ../binutils-2.36/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel
$ make
$ sudo make install

• man pages were not built - instead use binutils 2.36

• save existing toolchain and prepare for building new one

$ mv ~/projects/gcc-mips/ ~/projects/gcc-mips-ok/
# mv /data/apps-local/mipsel /data/apps-local/mipsel-ok
# mkdir /data/apps-local/mipsel

• start building new one

$ export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH
$ mkdir ~/projects/gcc-mips/
$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips/
$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.37.tar.gz -O /tmp/binutils-2.37.tar.gz
$ tar xvpf /tmp/binutils-2.37.tar.gz
$ mkdir build-binutils-el
$ cd build-binutils-el
$ ../binutils-2.37/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel
$ make
$ sudo make install

• prepare working area

$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips-10.3.0/
$ mkdir build-gcc-el-10.3.0
$ mkdir build-newlib-el-4.1.0

• download and unpack

$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-10.3.0/gcc-10.3.0.tar.gz -O /tmp/gcc-10.3.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvpf /tmp/gcc-10.3.0.tar.gz
$ wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-4.1.0.tar.gz -O /tmp/newlib-4.1.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvpf /tmp/newlib-4.1.0.tar.gz

• build and install (tools will be installed into /opt/mipsel/ directory). Building gcc with newlib is done in three steps.

$ cd build-gcc-el-10.3.0
$ ../gcc-10.3.0/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel-10.3.0 --without-headers --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-newlib --enable-languages=c --with-local-prefix=/opt/mipsel --with-native-system-header-dir=/opt/mipsel/include/ --disable-nls --disable-shared  --enable-multilib --disable-decimal-float -disable-threads --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libgomp --disable-libquadmath
$ make
$ sudo make install

• –enable-multilib - builds several variants of libraries (big-endian, little-endian hard-float and soft-float). Default is little-endian hard-float.

$ /opt/mipsel-10.3.0/bin/mipsel-gcc -print-multi-lib
.;
soft-float;@msoft-float
eb;@EB
soft-float/eb;@msoft-float@EB
$

• newlib requires mips-cc

# cd /opt/mipsel-10.3.0/bin
# ln -s mipsel-gcc mipsel-cc

• build and install

$ export PATH=/opt/mipsel-10.3.0/bin:$PATH
$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips-10.3.0/build-newlib-el-4.1.0
$ ../newlib-4.1.0/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel-10.3.0
$ make ; echo $?
...
mipsel-cc -B/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el/mipsel/newlib/ -isystem /home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build[27/1919]
l/mipsel/newlib/targ-include -isystem /home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include -B/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el/mipsel/libgloss/mips -L/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el/mipsel/libgloss/libnosys -L/home/d
ambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/libgloss/mips    -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"newlib\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"newlib\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=
\"4.1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"newlib\ 4.1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -I. -I../../../../../newlib-4.1.0/new
lib/libc/stdlib -fno-builtin -DMISSING_SYSCALL_NAMES -DHAVE_INIT_FINI      -g -O2 -c -o lib_a-dtoa.o `test -f 'dtoa.c' || echo '../../../../../newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/stdlib/'`dtoa.c
In file included from ../../../../../newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/stdlib/mprec.h:29,
                 from ../../../../../newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/stdlib/dtoa.c:33:
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:152:2: error: #error "double and long double are the s
ame size but LDBL_EQ_DBL is not defined"
  152 | #error "double and long double are the same size but LDBL_EQ_DBL is not defined"
      |  ^~~~~
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:195:3: error: unknown type name '__ieee_ext_field_type
'
  195 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_fracl : EXT_FRACLBITS;
      |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:195:38: error: 'EXT_FRACLBITS' undeclared here (not in
 a function); did you mean 'EXT_FRACBITS'?
  195 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_fracl : EXT_FRACLBITS;
      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                      EXT_FRACBITS
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:195:26: error: bit-field 'ext_fracl' width not an inte
ger constant
  195 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_fracl : EXT_FRACLBITS;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:196:3: error: unknown type name '__ieee_ext_field_type
'
  196 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_frach : EXT_FRACHBITS;
      |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:196:38: error: 'EXT_FRACHBITS' undeclared here (not in
 a function); did you mean 'EXT_FRACBITS'?
  196 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_frach : EXT_FRACHBITS;
      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                      EXT_FRACBITS
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:196:26: error: bit-field 'ext_frach' width not an inte
ger constant
  196 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_frach : EXT_FRACHBITS;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:197:3: error: unknown type name '__ieee_ext_field_type
'
  197 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_exp   : EXT_EXPBITS;
      |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:197:38: error: 'EXT_EXPBITS' undeclared here (not in a
 function); did you mean 'EXT_EXP_BIAS'?
  197 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_exp   : EXT_EXPBITS;
      |                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                      EXT_EXP_BIAS
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:197:26: error: bit-field 'ext_exp' width not an integer constant
  197 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_exp   : EXT_EXPBITS;
      |                          ^~~~~~~
/home/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/newlib-4.1.0/newlib/libc/include/ieeefp.h:198:3: error: unknown type name '__ieee_ext_field_type'
  198 |   __ieee_ext_field_type  ext_sign  : 1;
      |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[5]: *** [Makefile:734: lib_a-dtoa.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory '/data/smb/users/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el/mipsel/newlib/libc/stdlib'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:683: all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/data/smb/users/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el/mipsel/newlib/libc'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:641: all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/data/smb/users/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el/mipsel/newlib'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:452: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/data/smb/users/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el/mipsel/newlib'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:8492: all-target-newlib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/data/smb/users/dambi/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el'
make: *** [Makefile:879: all] Error 2
2

* LDBL_EQ_DBL not defined in some header files

$ pwd
~/projects/gcc-mips-10.3.0/build-newlib-el-4.1.0
$ ggrep -Rl LDBL_EQ ./
./mipsel/newlib/targ-include/newlib.h
./mipsel/newlib/newlib.h
./mipsel/soft-float/newlib/targ-include/newlib.h
./mipsel/soft-float/newlib/config.log
./mipsel/soft-float/newlib/config.status
./mipsel/soft-float/newlib/newlib.h
./mipsel/soft-float/eb/newlib/newlib.h
./mipsel/soft-float/eb/newlib/targ-include/newlib.h
./mipsel/soft-float/eb/newlib/config.log
./mipsel/soft-float/eb/newlib/config.status
./mipsel/eb/newlib/config.log
./mipsel/eb/newlib/targ-include/newlib.h
./mipsel/eb/newlib/newlib.h
./mipsel/eb/newlib/config.status

* define LDBL_EQ_DBL in files where it is not defined

$ vim -p ./mipsel/newlib/targ-include/newlib.h ./mipsel/newlib/newlib.h
$ make ; echo $?
$ sudo make install

$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips-10.3.0/build-gcc-el-10.3.0
$ ../gcc-10.3.0/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel-10.3.0 --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-newlib --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-local-prefix=/opt/mipsel --with-native-system-header-dir=/opt/mipsel/include --disable-nls --disable-shared  --enable-multilib --disable-decimal-float -disable-threads --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libgomp --disable-libquadmath
$ make -j 10 ; echo $?
$ sudo make install

• prepare working area

$ mkdir ~/projects/gcc-mips/
$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips/
$ mkdir build-binutils-el

• download and unpack

$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.22.tar.gz -O /tmp/binutils-2.22.tar.gz
$ tar xvpf /tmp/binutils-2.22.tar.gz

• build and install (all tools will be installed into /opt/mipsel/ directory)

$ cd build-binutils-el
$ ../binutils-2.22/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel
$ make
$ sudo make install

• prepare working area

$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips/
$ mkdir build-gcc-el
$ mkdir build-newlib-el

• download and unpack

$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.5.2/gcc-4.5.2.tar.gz -O /tmp/gcc-4.5.2.tar.gz
$ tar xvpf /tmp/gcc-4.5.2.tar.gz
$ wget ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/newlib/newlib-1.20.0.tar.gz -O /tmp/newlib-1.20.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvpf /tmp/newlib-1.20.0.tar.gz

• build and install (tools will be installed into /opt/mipsel/ directory). Building gcc with newlib is done in three steps.

$ cd build-gcc-el
$ ../gcc-4.5.2/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel --with-gmp-include=/usr/include/gmp --with-mpfr-include=/usr/include/mpfr --without-headers --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-newlib --enable-languages=c --with-local-prefix=/opt/mipsel --with-native-system-header-dir=/opt/mipsel/include/ --disable-nls --disable-shared  --enable-multilib --disable-decimal-float -disable-threads --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libgomp --disable-libquadmath
$ make
$ sudo make install

• –enable-multilib - builds several variants of libraries (big-endian, little-endian hard-float and soft-float). Default is little-endian hard-float.

$ /opt/mipsel/bin/mipsel-gcc -print-multi-lib
.;
soft-float;@msoft-float
eb;@EB
soft-float/eb;@msoft-float@EB
$

• build and install

$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips/build-newlib-el
$ ../newlib-1.20.0/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel
$ make
$ sudo make install

$ cd ~/projects/gcc-mips/build-gcc-el
$ ../gcc-4.5.2/configure --target=mipsel --prefix=/opt/mipsel --with-gmp-include=/usr/include/gmp --with-mpfr-include=/usr/include/mpfr --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-newlib --enable-languages=c --with-local-prefix=/opt/mipsel --with-native-system-header-dir=/opt/mipsel/include --disable-nls --disable-shared  --enable-multilib --disable-decimal-float -disable-threads --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libgomp --disable-libquadmath
$ make
$ sudo make install