N32 Porting Guidelines

N32 Porting Guidelines

This section describes the guidelines/steps necessary to port IRIX 5.x 32-bit applications to n32. Typically, any porting project can be divided into the following tasks:

Identifying and creating the necessary porting environment (see "Porting Environment")
Identifying and making the necessary source code changes (see "Source Code Changes")
Rebuilding the application for the target machine (see "Build Procedure")
Analyzing and debugging runtime issues (see "Runtime Issues")

Each of these tasks is described below. You can also find additional information about n32 in the MIPSpro N32 ABI Handbook.

Porting Environment
Source Code Changes
Build Procedure
Runtime Issues