What does the toolchain installer do?

jojojoris · Post by **jojojoris** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:23 pm

I am trying to install the toolchain on my ubuntu. While the installer war running i was looking trough the scripts.

I saw 2 scripts with 2 stages.

gcc and pspsdk has both 2 stages.

What is the difference about these scripts.

Post by **ooPo** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:45 am

Basically you need a C compiler to build the C++ standard library, then you can build a C++ compiler. This is why it is done in two stages.

I believe pspsdk is in two stages because you need part of it to build the first stage of the compiler, which is then needed to compile the other part of pspsdk.

This is sometimes called toolchain hell. :)