Binutils executables are failing to run in a canadian cross compilation

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I am building an arm compiler on a linux machine, which will run on a windows machine.

My build script seems to run fine, I finish all steps and in the end have a compiler for the windows machine that works. The problem lies in the binutils executables.

Here's a condensed view of the builds binaries in the installation tree:

arm-unknown-eabi
arm-unknown-eabi/bin
    * Contains arm-unknown-eabi-gcc.exe, arm-unknown-eabi-ar.exe etc
arm-unknown-eabi/arm-unknown-eabi
arm-unknown-eabi/arm-unknown-eabi/bin
    * Contains ar.exe

All of the arm-unknown-eabi-ar.exe files work just fine on my windows machine. The problem is, arm-unknown-eabi-gcc is trying to call ar.exe while building. Normally this would not be an issue, and is actually preferred. However, when I run ar.exe, the following error pops up in windows:

Program: ar.exe' failed to run: The specified executable is not a vlaid application for this OS platform. At line:1 char:1

ar, which is a product of binutils does not want to run on windows. I went back to have a look at my configure script for binutils. Here are the options I pass:

BUILD=x86_64-linux-gnu
HOST=i686-w64-mingw32
TARGET=arm-unknown-eabi

    CONFIG_OPTIONS=(
        --host=${HOST}
        --build=${BUILD}
        --target=${TARGET}
        --prefix=${TOOLSDIR}
         --with-cpu=cortex-m4
         --with-fpu=fpv4-sp-d16
         --with-float=hard
         --with-mode=thumb
         --enable-interwork
         --enable-multilib
         --disable-werror
         --disable-nls
         --with-gnu-as
         --with-gnu-ld

My next attempt, I tried building binutils again with only the host, build, target, and prefix specified. Same error.

I am using the mxe cross compiler to build windows applications. Like I said before, it seems to be working fine, because every other executable built such as gcc, collect2, etc work just fine on the windows PC.

So I am lost as to what to try next. Any ideas?

asked 22 secs ago

forrest

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Binutils executables are failing to run in a canadian cross compilation