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What distribution-maintained cross-compile toolchain packages exist?
I have just learned of Gentoo's sys-devel/crossdev package. This is a package that is useful for creating a cross-compiling toolchain.
Are there any other such packages out there on other ...
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what is the difference between cross-compiling and native compiling
What is the exact difference between cross-compiling and native compiling?
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Changing my toolchain architecture (in gentoo)
This is somewhat gentoo-specific, so I'll explain it in that context, then try to abstract it to a generic linux machine.
I accidently set my CHOST to "i686-pc-linux-gnu" in the beginning, not paying ...
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Backporting OpenSSL-1.0.1e to Debian Lenny (armv4l)
I have an old embedded board that supports only Debian Lenny. I need to install OpenSSL-1.0.1e on it. If I download the source code then try to compile the source code, I get this error
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CLFS: Building GCC cross compiler
Currently I try to build a embedded Linux from scratch with the instructions from Cross Linux from Scratch.
Everything worked fine until I tried to compile the GCC Cross-Compiler. I want to build the ...
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Cross LFS - PPC - Error while compiling
I'm trying to build a CLFS for a PPC 8270 processor. All is fine until I use the make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=${CLFS_TARGET}- command.
CC arch/powerpc/kernel/align.o
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Building 32-Bit on a 64-Bit system
I'm trying to build the PHP memcache extension (v2.2.6) for i386 (32bit) on my x86_64 Ubuntu 11.04.
./configure uses config.guess by default (which outputs x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu on my system) but ...
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Cross-compiling and CMake
I am trying to cross-compile CGAL on an amd64 Linux machine to the ARM architecture. CGAL uses CMake for building.
CGAL has several dependencies, including GMP and MPFR libraries. When CMake runs, ...
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target/build CFLAGS mixup when cross-emerging due to bug or my stupidity?
I'm trying to emerge LLVM using emerge from a crossdev (for ARM) overlay in Gentoo. I've set the CFLAG of the overlay to optimise for arm (-march=armv6j), which seems to make ./configure fail on the ...
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Is it safe to just copy shared libraries onto embedded Linux device?
The following is contained in the vendor user manual for its embedded Linux distro on the hardward board they supply
Developers can put their program onto X-Linux device via FTP or NFS.
Before ...
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Build Operating System version is different from Kernel version. Can this cause trouble?
I have recently messed up my Debian Squeeze installation. (click for more). I fixed audio but my battery state indicator and touchpad isn't working. In my attempt to fix this I observed that Kernel ...
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Is there any pattern to specify target triples in GCC?
The gcc compiler use target-triplets for cross-compilation. I see some of these target triples like "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" (the most common). I understand what means but I don't know how specify ...
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using cross-compiled Valgrind
I have downloaded the sources from the Valgrind trunk and built it for using on an embedded Linux system(Montavista Linux) powered by an ARM926(ARMv5t architecture). Everything went well until I tried ...
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Cross-compile FreeBSD package as unprivileged user
My goal is to cross-compile binaries from an amd64 FreeBSD host to an armv6 RaspberryPi FreeBSD target.
The problem I am running into is I am required to be root in order to make install, where my ...
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Cross compiling expect for ARM
I have downloaded expect5.4 . I'm trying to cross compile it for ARM(PandaBoard) running stripped down version of linux.
In the initial setup of configuring , I try
Shell$ ./configure --host=ARM
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Compile parameters for MIPS based codesourcery toolchain?
I installed codesourcery cross compile toolchain for mips32 architecture on my WIN 7 machince. I want to first compile a simple 'factorial' binary for my router which is based on MIPS32. From little ...
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Why does building an Android kernel need a toolchain, but compiling the entire source does not?
As seen here, compiling the Android kernel requires a prebuilt GCC toolchain (or the equivalent from the Android NDK). Cross-compilation makes sense; we are compiling code for a device with a ...
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Compile Linux Application for Windows
I want to use a Linux Application under Windows. It is my understanding that the application is Linux only and to use it in Windows I have to compile the application from the source using Cygwin or ...
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How can I use my server to compile a kernel for my laptop?
My laptop, an HP pavilion with an nVidia card, has some issues with suspending. Namely firewire breaks on suspend and the nvidia drivers cause Xorg to hang on resume. I'd like to compile my own kernel ...
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What is the meaning of Scratchbox2?
Somewhere i heard the term 'Scratchbox2'. Why this is used? what is the exact meaning of this?
What is the advantages over Scratchbox 1?
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GNU toolchains against GCC SVN?
Is there anything like CodeSourcery which provides prebuilt binaries for arm toolchains built against gcc-svn.
http://elinux.org/Toolchains#Prebuilt_toolchains
Otherwise, a working instruction for ...
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Build Linux and run it (uImage) on the Beagle board - xM
I'm working on some project where I'm using the Beagle board - xM Rev C. Power supply is 5V/2A adapter. My task is porting Linux Angstrom on the board but I have some problems. I have choosen Linux ...
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Help compiling a Linux driver for a TV card stack
I've been trying to get my Raspberry Pi to work with one of two TV Cards that I have available on me. Unfortunately I live in Hong Kong where due to the digital broadcast standard, leaves me with few ...
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Eglibc cannot compile suffix of object files while trying to cross compile
I'm currently making my way through Trac's CLFS book.
When trying to configure the 32-bit version of EGLIBC-2.15, using the options:
BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc ${BUILD32}" \
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Why does exec file generate 4 processes in Linux? [closed]
I build my RTAI-model-sourceļ¼generated by simulinkļ¼ in CygWin with gcc-linux-4.1 (cross-compiler of CygWin) on Windows, and generate ELF successfully. and the ELF runs correctly on Ubuntu.
After the ...
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How to build AVR cross-compler under Gentoo Linux?
I need to install AVR cross-compiler on my PC. Some time ago I have used crossdev -S avr to build one, but it doesn't work anymore. I get following:
Calculating dependencies * Missing digest for ...
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Error while cross compiling using crosstool-ng. How to debug?
This is my build log:
[ERROR]
[ERROR]
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[ERROR] >> Build failed in step 'Installing C library headers & start files'
[ERROR] >> called in step ...
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make: i686-linux-gcc: Command not found
I am using Ubuntu-11.10 amd64 and trying to cross-compile a linux-2.6.38.8 kernel for a 32-bit target.I tried
make CROSS_COMPILE=i686-linux- ARCH=i386
But I got error
make: i686-linux-gcc: ...
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Setting Up Cross Compiler, Linux x86_64 to Solaris 10 SPARC
I have a student account for a Solaris 10 SPARC server at the university I go to, and I thought it would be interesting to set up a cross-compiling GCC on my home Linux x86_64 computer so that I could ...
