compile for ARM

Nick Craig-Wood nick at craig-wood.com
Thu Sep 20 05:30:16 EDT 2007


Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>  On 19 Sep, 20:36, Paul McGuire <pt... at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>  The inquirer might also consider crosstool, which is good at building
>  cross-compilers for GNU/Linux targeting "Embedded Linux":
> 
>  http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/
> 
>  As for building Python itself, searching the Python bug tracker for
>  "cross-compile" might provide some patches and advice:

You could also do the build using qemu which can emulate an ARM
system.

Debian do a complete ARM userspace, so you can install that under qemu
and do native builds.

Cross compilers work well though - we build our app which has python
embedded for ARM using a cross compiler running under debian.

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