Re: Cross-compiling GNUstep?

[Ivan Vučica]

On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Fred Kiefer  wrote:
> Nikolaus Schaller isn't using GNUstep itself. He has his own fork mySTEP and to my knowledge he uses XCode to do the compilation for the different environments. As he only needs to support a few well controlled target systems, he gets along without all these compilcated configure scripts we are using.
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> I tried myself to cross compile GNUstep ages ago and failed. One problem was that gnustep-make was using the terms host/build/target in a different order than the cross compilation standard. No idea whether Nicola fixed that.
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> I agree with Richard that it is probably best to just generate the results of autoconf in a different way and use these then. I created them manually at that time. It would help to document what gets changed by the configure step.

Would it be possible to initially compile GNUstep (or at least run configure) on the device itself?

Writing Makefiles manually for cross compiling purposes would also be another possibility. SDL ships with several makefiles, presumably for OSes that cannot run configure.

Also, it would probably be enough to write these makefiles for gnustep-make.

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Ivan

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