Re: [patch] help for cross compiling lua
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- Subject: Re: [patch] help for cross compiling lua
- From: John E Hein <jhein@...>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:56:57 -0700
Dirk Feytons wrote at 22:27 +0100 on Mar 5, 2008:
> Lua has the advantage that it is ANSI C and so small that it is very
> easy to just write a custom Makefile for whatever build setup you are
> using.
> They better don't add autoconf stuff; the ./configure step would
> probably take longer than the actual compilation :)
Agreed. FWIW, I'm no great autoconf fan - just noting that
it's use is pervasive.
> Autoconf is not really standard in the embedded world from what I've
> seen (which is not that much to be honest; we don't have many 3rd
> party components).
We do embedded stuff, too, and occasionally build 3rd party ports.
Many of those we've used over the years use the 'configure' way.
> > If lua adds something like the prefix above, it won't bother me. I'll
> > just add CROSS_COMPILE to my cross build environment in addition to
> > AR, CC, RANLIB, STRIP, etc. What's one more variable?
>
> One advantage of CROSS_COMPILE is that it doesn't have any effect if
> you don't use it.
By the way, we call it CROSS_PREFIX in our build system. We use it to
set AR, etc., when doing builds of software that doesn't use autoconf
(if autoconf, then we use --host=<prefix>). It almost worked for lua
the first time except for this little ARFLAGS nit.
> > Does anyone have any good examples of software packages that use
> > such a prefix method?
>
> The Linux kernel :)
Okay. One little fringe piece of software. ;)
FreeBSD does it differently, by the way. It just uses PATH.