I've compiled for ARM A8. The biggest issue was configuring to use the system OpenSSL and pcre libraries. other than that , no problems.
On Apr 12, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Maxim Dounin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 01:22:14PM -0400, Shohreh wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to run Nginx on the SheevaPlug >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug), which is based on Marvell's >> Kirkwood 88F6281 (ARM9E/ARMv5TE). >> >> I have a couple of newbie questions: >> >> 1. The archives of the mailing list >> (http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,227934,228360#msg-228360) include a >> reference to those ports based on older versions: >> >> http://packages.debian.org/search?arch=arm&keywords=nginx >> Based on 1.2.1-2.2 >> >> http://nginx.org/packages/debian/pool/nginx/n/nginx/ >> Based on 1.2.8-1 >> >> Currently (www.nginx.org/en/CHANGES), the latest Nginx source is 1.3.15. Why >> are those ports based on older code? Because it's not just a matter of >> recompiling, but it also requires making changes to the source code so Nginx >> can run on ARM? > > Latest stable is 1.2.8, and that's what you see in the official > repository. Latest mainline is 1.3.15, it is available in a > separate repository, see here: > > http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline > >> 2. I tried cross-compiling Nginx on a PC running Ubuntu with Marvell's >> cross-compiler (www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/plug-basic/), but it fails >> right from the start: >> >> ==================== >> ~/nginx-1.2.6# ./configure >> --with-cc=/root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc >> >> checking for OS >> + Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 >> checking for C compiler ... not found >> >> ./configure: error: C compiler >> /root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc is not found >> >> ~/nginx-1.2.6# ll /root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 fred fred 180000 Feb 26 2008 >> /root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc* >> ==================== >> >> How should I set things up so that I can try cross-compiling Nginx? > > We don't really support cross-compilation in our configure/build > system, but there were reports of success with relatively few > tweaks to configure. You may try to look into ./objs/autoconf.err > for more information on what fails during configure. > > -- > Maxim Dounin > http://nginx.org/en/donation.html > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
