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The code I'm working on is supposed to be possible to build for both hosted and freestanding environments, providing private implementations for some stdlib functions for the latter case.
Can I reliably test this with just GCC on a normal workstation/build server? Compile for freestanding environment with GCC
The "-ffreestanding" option looked promising, but it seems that it "only" disables built-ins and sets the STDC_HOSTED macro properly, it still provides all system headers.
The option "-nostdinc" is too restrictive; I still want to use the headers required for a freestanding implementation (in particular stddef.h and limits.h).
What am I missing here?
Oh, and I'm using GCC 4.4.3 for the moment, will upgrade to 4.5.0 "soon".
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The -c option in the command means compile (but don't link). The result of this will be .o (object) files. Try the command without the -c , it should link and create your snmpy executable.
The gccgo compiler works like other gcc frontends. As of GCC 5 the gccgo installation also includes a version of the go command, which may be used to build Go programs as described at https://go.dev/cmd/go.
-c : This command compile the program and give the object file as output, which is used to make libraries.
Well, since no answer is given yet I'd might as well describe how I made this work. It's pretty simple although depending on the target system it can be tedious.
Using "-nostdinc" means that the standard system include paths will be skipped; other include-paths given with "-I" will of course still be searched for headers.
So, for the freestanding build target I create a folder 'include-freestanding-c89' and link the relevant system headers -- float.h, iso646.h, limits.h, stdarg.h and stddef.h -- there. Other headers might be included in these, depending on your platform, so you might have to do some research and set up more links (hence the tediousness if you need to do this for several target platforms).
The C89 directory can then be used as base for 'include-freestanding-c99', the extra headers to link are stdbool.h and stdint.h
The command-line to use is then
gcc -std=c89 -nostdinc -nostdlib -ffreestanding -I include-freestanding-c89 or
gcc -std=c99 -nostdinc -nostdlib -ffreestanding -I include-freestanding-c99 This Xen Makefile uses gcc -print-search-dirs to get the directory with stddef.h and similar, adds it with -isystem, then uses -nostdinc to build:
https://github.com/mirage/xen/blob/2676bc915157ab474ee478d929b0928cf696b385/stubdom/Makefile#L35
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