Re: [Gnash-dev] How to cross compile ?

[Hannes Mayr]

Hello,

shamju joseph wrote:
> Thank you for the reply. I have some more doubts regarding this,
> please excuse me for asking these basic doubts.
>
> 1) If configure script need not be modified, why should we pass
> 'host=name' parameter to configure? where is this parameter used?

Normally configure detects automatically the host system,
on x86 for example i686-pc-linux-gnu. If you are cross-compiling you 
need to explicit set this variable to tell configure the target host and 
it can then detect that you are going to cross-compile.

> 2) How I know the name of 'host=' parameter for my target?

The host parameter consists of cpu-company-system or cpu-system. Instead 
of trying it out, you could do a search with google, maybe someone else 
did already cross-compiling with the same compiler and you could look 
how he did it.

> 3) How we tell configure the location of other cross-compiled library
> files?
>
> 4) How we tell configure the location of other host specific include
> files?
>
> I have /opt/kenati/lx4189-kenati-linux folder with bin include and
> lib subfolders. The 'bin' folder has cross compiler tools
> (lx4189-uclibc-gcc etc), 'include' has target specific include files
> and 'lib' has cross-compiled libraries.
>
> 5) How can I tell 'configure' to look for include files and library
> files in the above folders instead of default folders?

Usually with "--with-<dependency->-lib=/your/path/to/libs" and for 
includes "--with-<dependency->-incl=/your/path/to/include".

You may look to "./configure --help" for more help and all available 
options.


Hannes