General questions about GCC and cross compiling

Question

Recently I\'ve been playing around with cross compiling using GCC and discovered what seems to be a complicated area, tool-chains.

I don\'t quite understand this as

Answer 1

If you want to try cross-compiling, and don't want to build the toolchain yourself, I'd recommend looking at CodeSourcery. They have a GNU-based toolchain, and their free "Lite" version supports quite a few architectures. I've used it for Linux/ARM and Android/ARM.