Re: Build x86 Applictions on an Itanium

>I have an Itanium machine with Red Hat 7.2 installed. I would like
>to create 32-bit applications (x86) that will run on the Itanium
>machine.
>Do I need to build gcc as a cross compiler for x86 ? Or is an RPM
>already available somewhere ?

Normally one uses an x86 machine for this.  On an x86 machine running RHL 7.2,
build an application normally, then copy it to the Itanium machine, along
with any shared libraries it needs, and it should work on the Itanium machine.

If you wanted to build on the Itanium machine itself, you would need a cross
compiler.  It should work in theory, but I don't know if anyone has tried
this.  Red Hat does not provide RPMs for this.  It would be simpler and faster
to just do the build on an x86 machine.

Jim