[gmx-users] cross compiling gromacs

[ganapathy senthilkumar]

thanks a lot David .It works.

regards
ganapathy senthilkumar

On 5/3/06, David van der Spoel <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:
>
> ganapathy senthilkumar wrote:
> > dear gromacs users,
> > I tried to cross-compile gromacs for powerpc on an intel x86
> > machine. i set the configure options as
> >
> > export CPPFLAGS=-I/mnt/usr/local/include
> > export LDFLAGS=-L/mnt/usr/local/lib
> >
> > =>i had mounted another root file system(simulated) onto mnt.
> > i ran the configure script with the following options.
> >
> > ./configure  --prefix=/mnt/usr/local/
> > CC="/opt/sce/toolchain-2.3/ppu/bin/ppu-gcc -m32 -Wl,-m,elf32ppc"
> > --enable-portable-binary
> > CFLAGS=-L/home/murali/cell1.0.1/sysroot/usr/lib  --host=powerpc64-linux
> > RANLIB=/opt/sce/toolchain-2.3/ppu/bin/powerpc64-linux-ranlib
> >
> >
> > on doing make i got the following error
> >
> > ./mknb   -software_invsqrt
> > ./mknb: ./mknb: cannot execute binary file
> > make[5]: *** [kernel-stamp] Error 126
> > make[5]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/murali/gromacs/gromacs-3.3.1/src/gmxlib/nonbonded/nb_kernel'
> > make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[4]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/murali/gromacs/gromacs-3.3.1/src/gmxlib/nonbonded'
> > make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/murali/gromacs/gromacs-3.3.1
> /src/gmxlib'
> > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/murali/gromacs/gromacs-3.3.1/src'
> > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/murali/gromacs/gromacs-3.3.1/src'
> > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >
> > i understand that the mknb file generated by make is an powerpc
> > executable and therefore cannot be executed.(since i am on a intel
> machine).
> >
> > kindly help me solve this problem.thank you in advance.
> compile mknb separately for the host platform and run it before cross
> compiling.
>
> you may also want to tell configure to use altivec
> >
> > sincerely,
> > ganapathy senthilkumar
> >
> >
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