Monthly Archives: January 2007

Crossdressing the PPC

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Something I’ve wanted to make work for a long, long time…

The Actors

$ uname -a
  Darwin bose 8.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0:
  Fri Sep  8 17:18:57 PDT 2006;
  root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC      Power Macintosh powerpc
$ ssh artni uname -a
  Linux artni 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp #1 SMP
  Wed Apr 19 05:31:55 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ _

The Production

$ make
  i686-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -static hello-kitty.c
                      -o hello-kitty
$ file hello-kitty
   hello-kitty: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
   version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.3,
   statically linked, not stripped
$ _


Staging

$ scp hello-kitty  artni:/tmp hello-kitty  100%  458KB  30.5KB/s
$ _


Action!

$ ssh artni /tmp/hello-kitty
Hello, kitty!
$ _

Sweet! Woot! Special thanks to Dan Kegel for crosstool!

Now if only those Linux kids wouldn't make their filenames case-dependent.
(Foo.h and foo.h in the same directory, I mean, really!)