Re: cross-compilation howto (was "Re: [Bluez-users] Trying to compile for axis but Bluetooth library not found")

[Erwin Authried <eauth@softsys.co.at>]

Am Fre, den 04.02.2005 schrieb Marco Trudel um 18:32:
> Hello Marcel
> 
> I learned a lot of configure and make flags I didn't knew before.
> So, that's the state:
> 
> For crosscompiling, it's enought to:
> ./configure --build=[buildArchitecture] --host=[targetArchitecture]
> 
> The cross-compiler has to be in path.
> That's it. Everything else is like usual compiling.
> 
Hi,
you are almost right. In practice, almost every configure script has
some problems with cross-compiling. For example, configure scripts that
do runtime tests for the target system will obviously fail. You can work
around that by supplying a hand-crafted config.guess that substitutes
missing values. In other cases, you have to play with configure options
and environment variables.

> I don't think this is worth a howto, do you?
> Actually a bluetooth compilation howto with a little crosscompiling 
> subsection that hints to the --build and --host switches should be more 
> than enough.
It's definitely worth to have a howto, because if you search the web or
mailinglists, there are a lot of misleading or wrong hints regarding
this topic. I don't have time right now to write a howto, but I think
that the recent postings are already some help to get started for
somebody who is in trouble with cross-compiling.

> 
> Erwin: Is only using --host proper?
> It works but I get a warning (I don't like warnings. So I always try to do 
> things right.)
> 
I have cross-compiled a lot of packages, and --host was always
sufficient (I tried to use the possible minimum of options) . The
warning says:

  "WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host."

that applies to something that you don't want to do anyway in our case.

Regards,
Erwin




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