Handy uClinux commands

This page is devoted to uClinux.

It holds some tips and tricks I found on the internet.
This page is more or less for myself, to prevent the data I gathered form being lost on the turbulent internet

GDB  on m68k platform:

the debugger can be found in the local user directory (GDB) or a newer version can be build with the command.

For my build i used version 6.6 of GDB and version 4.2.4 of m68k-uclinux-gcc

 

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-6.6.tar.gz
tar -xzf gdb-6.6.tar.gz
cd gdb-6.6
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --program-prefix=m68k-uclinux- --target=m68k-uclinux --disable-werror
make
sudo make install

The next step is only needed if you need to compile the gdb server for your device

cd ../gdb/gdbserver
export CC=m68k-uclinux-gcc
export LD=m68kuclinux-ld
./configure --host=m68k-uclinux --target=m68k-uclinux
make

Next step we want to make the most recent gdbserver, we do this by changing the directory.

cd gdb/gdbserver

open file "configure.srv" and change srv_linux_thread_db=yes into srv_linux_thread_db=no for line : m68*-*-uclinux*)

export CC=m68k-uclinux-gcc
export CFLAGS="-m5307 -g -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-common -fno-builtin -msep-data"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-elf2flt -Wl,-move-rodata -msep-data -m5307"
./configure --host=m68k-uclinux --target=m68k-uclinux
make

We want to upload the gdbserver binary to our device

To debug an application remotely:

1. On uClinux/ColdFire "gdbserver :3000 app"
2. On host system "gdb app.gdb"
3. At gdb command prompt enter "target remote IP:3000"

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Building a new toolchain under ubuntu:

make sure you have gcc installed and ncurses Libs

sudo apt-get install build-essentials
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get build-dep gcc
sudo apt-get install autoconf bison automake

download build and install GMP
download build and install MPFR

 

 

Download newest: kernel, uclibc, uclinux, gcc, binutils, elf2flt

Download build script.

extract uclibc and open a terminal to that directory.
now type : make menuconfig and configure uclibc for your device.

for m68knommu disable MMU , posix and shared lib support
set stdio buffer size to a minimum of 256

When you are done select save to alternate file and type in uClibc-.68k.config

find this file and place it one directory up.

untar uclinux now.

Now open build-uclinux-tools.sh and change all versions to the correct ones you have downloaded, and set the correct path to the uclinux directory.

After you are done correcting the paths, type ./build-uclinux-tools.sh build

If something breaks, correct the errors and then run ./build-uclinux-tools.sh continue