Error in busybox make command for mips

Question

Recently, I've tried to build busybox for MIPS architecture, following steps provided in "Pro Linux Embbeded Systems" book. Beforehand, I've sucessfully installed and configured crosstool-ng for working with MIPS.

At busybox, I've setted CROSS_COMPILER prefix for one present in x-tools directory (generated from crosstool-ng).

However, when make command is run, the following message occurs:

applets/applets.c:1:0: warning: cannot use small-data accesses for '-mabicalls'
 /* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
 ^
In file included from include/libbb.h:13:0,
                 from include/busybox.h:10,
                 from applets/applets.c:11:
include/platform.h:120:23: fatal error: byteswap.h: No such file or directory
 # include <byteswap.h>
                       ^
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [applets/applets.o] Error 1
make: *** [applets] Error 2

In this sense, I ask: How do I fix this problem of missing header? Do I have to copy from /usr/include, or pull it from glibc source code, or something like that?

markgz markgz · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-23T19:02:35

Your cross compiler should have come with MIPS versions of the header files. There should be include and usr/include directories containing files like the MIPS version of byteswap.h. You might need to specify the --sysroot argument for gcc to tell it where the target header files are located.

Do not copy headers from the host system, that will result in subtle errors.

Error in busybox make command for mips

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