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Building binutils

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The romforth project leverages binutils to assemble/link/disassemble code for various architectures. The way to build binutils for these different architectures is arcane and rather than subject folks who want to use romforth to that, I've created a repo called build-binutils which will build all of the binutils binaries that are needed by romforth.

Using it is straightforward: just run make and then use the bin directory as part of the PATH while building romforth.

Building binutils in turn depends on various other binaries in your toolchain.

This seems to be the minimal set which is currently required:

ar        bison  cmp      echo   g++   ln      makeinfo  pkg-config  sort
arch      c++    cp       egrep  gawk  locale  mkdir     rm          test
as        cat    date     expr   grep  ls      msgfmt    rmdir       touch
awk       cc     diff     find   ld    m4      mv        sed         tr
basename  chmod  dirname  flex   link  make    perl      sleep       uname

I assume apt-get install -y build-essential on Ubuntu/Debian based distros is all you need to setup a machine populated with all of these binaries which are needed to build binutils.

The binutils code is currently cloned from https://github.com/romforth/binutils which is a "vendored" snapshot of https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.

There appear to be some unofficial mirrors of this code available at:

There are also the release blobs that are available from: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/

If you want to use a newer version you can just populate that directory directly from the original git location or any of the mirrors or releases listed above.