Re: Cross compilation status

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Hi Mathieu,

Am Sonntag, dem 10.09.2023 um 11:14 +0200 schrieb Mathieu Othacehe:
> I have CC'ed members of the python, java, ruby, rust, r, haskell and
> emacs teams. Any plans adding cross-compilation support to your
> build-system, barriers to overcome?
For Emacs, there are layers of problems.  First things first, we are
only doing byte compilation atm, which may or may not be arch-dependant
based on stuff like endianness.  For native compilation, there is the
thing that even a slightly differently configured emacs won't load the
packages you've just compiled without compiling it natively on its own.
Granted, if we want to do cross-compilation, having just the bytecode
might already be "good enough", but I wanted to throw this out there.

I think we'd need some support from Emacs proper before we can start
implementing cross builds.

Cheers