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guzik
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 Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:45 am Post subject: cross-platform compile |
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I was just curious if it is possible to cross-platform compile packages. I know that it is possible for example to compile all of the necessary gentoo packages ahead of time and just tar-balling them, however is it possible to compile on an x86 machine xfree for a sun box for example?
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meowsqueak
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Yes, it is possible, but it's not easy and it's not trivial. Don't let me put you off - it's not magic or anything - but it can be quite time consuming at first, until you understand how everything fits together.
I heard a good idea on these forums a little while ago - get a basic Gentoo working on your target platform, and then use distcc and a cross compiler to build your applications. That way, even if your target is quite slow, you can build X, KDE, whatever, much faster.
Do a search on forums.gentoo.org for 'cross compile' and a few others - I think you'll find a lot of info.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29985
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46297
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=78361 |
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