How to solve “error while loading shared libraries” when trying to run an arm binary with qemu-arm?

Question

I\'m running Linux Mint 14 with qemu, qemu-user, and the gnueabi toolchain installed. I compiled test.c with arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc test.c -o test.

When I tr

Answer 1

If you want to run ARM without Linux, then you need a different compiler (at least). arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc is a compiler for Linux. The compiler and libc are intimately linked. You will need a newlib compiler with a portability layer for qemu.^{porting newlib}

See: Balau and Google newlib+qemu. A newlib port is hosted at Github and seems to the same as the Balau blog.

Typically a non-Linux gcc is called arm-none-eabi-gcc. The prefix arm-none-eabi- is recognized by some configure scripts.