[Babel-users] Cross-compiling to armhf [was: beaglebone green wireless boards...]

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Benjamin Henrion <zoobab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek
>> <jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>>>> The preinstalled OS has sufficient compiler and onboard flash space to
>>>> build a current babeld from git, and I'm happy to report IPV6_SUBTREES
>>>> is compiled in by default.
>>>
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> It's not the first time that I notice with wonder that you're compiling on
>>> the devel boards.  Are you aware that cross-compiling babeld to armhf is
>>> so easy it's not even funny?
>>>
>>>   sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf
>>>   make CC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
>>
>>
>> I ended up writing a long rant about this that I will blog one day...
>> but my short answer to both your suggestions that I cross compile or
>> install a docker: "You kids, get off my lawn!" :)
>
> I never understood why you could not have some GCC with all the
> different arch built-in with just a switch flag like --arch="armv7".
>
> That would simplify the life of developers and packagers alike.

I discovered recently that Xcode is just doing that:

https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/751057066496753664

For example:

xcodebuild -configuration "Release" -arch armv7 install DSTROOT=/tmp/lzfse.dst

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