In the romforth project I've created a "gradually implementable Forth" where you can follow a step wise approach to port Forth to any architecture of your choice.
I've been using binutils for generating the assembler/disassembler/objdump binaries for the architectures for which I've already worked on a port.
Recently while moving distros I needed to rebuild the binaries and decided that rather than having to rebuild it any time I need to move, I'd rather build a static binary once and for all which can be run anywhere (x86).
Using the superpowers afforded by Zig + Musl, it is trivially easy to do this.
For example to build binutils for the SPARC, here are the steps required: (I'm using zig version 0.11.0)
target=sparc-unknown-linux-gnu BINUTILS= # directory where you have saved the code for binutils cd $BINUTILS mkdir -p ../build/$target && cd ../build/$target CC="zig cc -target x86_64-linux-musl" ~-/configure \ --target=$target --prefix $PWD # install the required binutils prerequisite dependencies such as # bison flex gcc ... make make install
Note: I used bash to run the above commands, YMMV
The binaries will be installed in the build directory. To build a similar
set of binaries for SPARC64, you only need to just change the target to
sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu and rebuild as above. Running --help lists the remaining architectures supported by binutils.
Note: This is just a "note to self" since I had to do some research to get it working and I'm hoping that having it on my own blog makes it trivial to find