Haiku GCC4 build

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Not sure where to put this really.
I noticed that there is no official build of haiku with gcc4, so I set out to make one myself. Built on Xubuntu 8.04.
I thought I might save some of you the time required to build haiku with GCC4, so I am posting it here.

This is a raw disk image, useable in qemu (not sure about other emulators, I use qemu) only 128mb in size, so you may want to make another disk image to work on.

The disk image is in a compressed tarball.
http://www.2shared.com/file/4879854/88d56b27/haiku_gcc4_raw.html

Have fun,
Conrad.

EDIT: Oops, silly me, I removed the file extension by mistake. Its .tar.bz2
Sorry :slight_smile:

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Thanks for putting that up, I’ve been trying to make a gcc4 build for the last couple of days, and cant seem to get anything to compile correctly, I have a thread trying to get gcc 4.3.3 working but no replys yet.

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Speed wise, how does Haiku GCC4 compare to default (GCC2.9x) Haiku?

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Seems to be about the same to me, then again, both were tested on an old dell dimension 8100 with a P4 1.4ghz processor (Mind you, it took about 8hrs to get the dev tools, compile, get the source, compile, and build a disk image), not exactly a powerful computer by today’s standards.

I don’t think you will see massive speed changes either way.

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8 hours? What OS are you running?

On a PIII 500 mhz, it only takes a few hours to get the sources and compile haiku for me… (running Debian CLI)

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Nice build :slight_smile: But I would have prefered a GCC2/GCC4 Hybrid build personally. Is it possible to add GCC2 support on a pure GCC4 build afterward?

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he said he was running xubuntu

debian is way more lightweight and I would say archlinux is lighter than debian… especially if you are wanting to save disk space on an older machine ubuntu is not the way to go

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Quote:
“Is it possible to add GCC2 support on a pure GCC4 build afterward?”

YES.

Download gcc2 haiku image. Mount image. Create “gcc2” folder & copy the gcc2 libraries into it. Move gcc2 folder to library folder in Haiku.

/boot/beos/system/lib?

The path above may be wrong but you get the idea.

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Have you tested this?
I may have to try that :slight_smile:

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Whoops, double post.
Also, mind you, clock speed isn’t the only determinant. My laptop with a 1.5ghz pentium m can decode 720p video, this one can’t, and it’s only 100mhz slower.

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Treat: http://rapidshare.de/files/45283456/haiku.7z.html
This version GCC4 hybrid with GCC2 support (with HDA driver).

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Treat: http://rapidshare.de/files/45283456/haiku.7z.html
This version GCC4 hybrid with GCC2 support (with HDA driver).[/quote]

Thanks there, saved me some more time :slight_smile:

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Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hmm, Firefox still wont work, even with the GCC2 libs installed in the hybrid image. Anyone know why?

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Ups, Sorry, this not a GCC2 problem. Look, image have 400 MB and have all packets (dev. too), is 2 MB place free , and FF need more free place when starts. I compiled larger image and upload to net.

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That’s why expander didn’t finish extracting firefox. Thanks, didn’t notice that.

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This 800 MB image GCC4 hybrid with GCC2 support (without HDA driver):
http://rapidshare.de/files/45363034/haiku.7z.html