It was a while ago, so I am not exactly sure what happened.
I was using gcc 3.0.
I was trying to create the arm-thumb-elf compiler. (I used
./configure --target=arm-thumb-elf.) The configure part worked fine.
I then tried to compile and it went a long way and then ends with the
following errors.

/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:65:
illegal message expression, found `]'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:72:
illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `?any?'
cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in
basic mode
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:65: parse
error before `,'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:66: parse
error before `,'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:67: parse
error before `,'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:68: parse
error before `,'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:69: parse
error before `,'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:70: parse
error before `,'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:71: parse
error before `,'
/volumes/data/applications/dev/thumb/gcc-3.0/gcc/f/global.c:73: parse
error before `}'
make[1]: *** [f/global.o] Error 1
make: *** [install-gcc] Error 2

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I pretty much gave up after that. I have not tried again. I was using the
instructions from
http://www.devrs.com/gba/files/dwcygwin.txt. Is there a place with
instructions that work better?

Thanks,
John

--- In gbadev@y..., "Toby Hutton" <vjfaq5yxe12s001@s...> wrote:
> bobscar.geo conraderj@a... XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX writes:
> > I would be interested in knowing how you compiled the devkit on
BSD.
> >
> > I was trying to get it to work on Mac OS X - a little BSD
heritage
> > somewhere in there. I had all kinds of problems getting the
compiler
> > set up to do the arm stuff. I finally gave up.
> All I did was use the patches from devkitadv (the most valuable
part)
> and applied them and did the standard configure/make/make install.
> What problems are you having specifically? What version of gcc is
> used as the OS X native compiler?
> --
> Toby.