On 29 Dec 2013, at 12:56, David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to cross-compile GNUstep, and since I'm sure I'm not the first > person to try this, I wondered if anyone had written up how to do it? I am > trying to build from FreeBSD/amd64 for FreeBSD/MIPS64. I have a > cross-compiler and sysroot setup. Building the runtime was trivial - just > point cmake at the cross-compile toolchain file - what do I need to do for > Make / base so that: > > - It knows that I don't actually want -make on the target platform. > - I get an installed version somewhere on my local machine that I can copy to > a different location on the remote > - All of the correct cross-compile flags are passed to the compiler > > I think Ivan has been through all of this recently for Android?
Going back to the start of thread (since it seems to have gone completely off topic), I took a quick look at the documentation (radical concept eh). The gnustep-make README document says (in the first introductory paragraph) that it supports cross compilation. The gnustep-make INSTALL document has a section on it and gives an example: ./configure --target=i386-mingw32 make install Now, I've never done any cross compilation, and probably most other people don't do it eiother, so I don't know if cross compilation support has bit-rotted, support for cross-compiling for a particular target is certainly there, ad this (the --target= option) appears to be the standard mechanism (a web search for cross compiling and autoconf finds it immediately). I guess the answer (howto do it) is that you configure for the target OS/CPU you want, then just build as normal. The INSTALL documentation also explains about using a non-flattened layout if you want to have multple architectures in the same filesystrem hierarchy etc. Of course, if there are any bit-rotted makefiles, we should correct them and make a bugfix release of the affected package. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev