RE: [OT] making software easily cross-compilable

["Kristoffer Ericson" <kristoffer_e1 at hotmail dot com>]

Greetings,

Not sure if this is what you are after but, just install scratchbox then you 
can do a simple
./configure, make, make install (destdir=??).

Best wishes
Kristoffer


> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
> To: crossgcc list <crossgcc@sources.redhat.com>
> Subject: [OT] making software easily cross-compilable
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:08:16 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>   (not crosstool-related, but i figure this is the best place to find
> the appropriate expertise.)
>
>   every so often, i come across some software that i would like to
> cross compile with my toolchain, but that software is *so* not
> designed for cross-compilation.
>
>   while much of it will, conveniently, have a Makefile to direct the
> build process, in the extreme case, that Makefile will literally
> hardcode references to the tools, like "gcc", "ld" and so on.  grrrrrr
> ....
>
>   slightly more conveniently, the Makefile might at least do something
> like
>
>   CC = gcc
>   LD = ld
>   STRIP = strip
>
> and so on, so one can override the variables with the corresponding
> cross-compile values.
>
>   even more generally, the build process might need access to *both*
> the cross-compile tools and the native tools (like the linux kernel
> does), so you might see:
>
>   CC := ${CROSS_COMPILE}cc
>   LD := ${CROSS_COMPILE}ld
>
> and another set for the native tools:
>
>   HOSTCC = gcc
>   HOSTLD = ld
>
> etc.
>
>   what approach do people here use?  that is, if i don't want to get
> into major pain with autotools and so on, is there a preferred way to
> make your software easily cross-compilable?  is there a *standard* way
> to do it?  thanks.
>
> rday
>
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