Am Sonntag 30 Mai 2010, 18:16:09 schrieb waldo kitty: > why can't one locate easily installable, pre-packaged "add-ons" (not > correct term) for cross-compiling capabilities? > > for example, one might install the win32 flavor of Laz/FPC and then simply > install the win32 flavor of the "linux cross-compile add-on"... the "linux > cross-compile add-on" would have everything necessary for cross-compiling > to linux... no rebuilding this or rebuilding that... simply tell the > compiler that the target is linux, hit the build or compile button and the > compiler spits out the proper binary... > > so, your development workstation is a *nix flavor? install the *nix flavor > of Laz/FPC followed by the *nix flavor of the "Win32 cross-compile add-on" > that has the win32 code and libs for cross-compiling to the win32 platform > from linux... same for OS/2 or OSX or any of the other OS' that Laz/FPC > can compile for... each base install flavor would have packaged "add-ons" > in that flavor for the other platforms that can be cross-compiled for... > > does that make sense?? i don't think that these "add-on" packages would > really be all that large, either... they're mostly source code and a > binary or three, right?
Compiling for any *nix platform requires a set of libraries to link against, since LD works that way. First: you can't simply distribute them (licensing). Second: they are version dependant. If I would compile against a much newer glibc than on my target system (or just one which is compiled differently) it might "go wrong". I had such cases - it cross-compiled fine but always crashed on _some_ target systems. Cross-compiling is not trivial at all. The easiest you can currently get is probably the Lazarus distribution called CodeTyphon[1]. I haven't extensively tried cross compiling with it, though. But it offers it as feature, so you might want to give it a shot :-) Best Regards, Andreas. [1]: http://www.pilotlogic.com/sitejoom/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=147 -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
