Cross compiler for RPi 2

spongetron · 09-23-2016, 03:56 AM

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 running slackware-current. As compiling on the Pi is a bit slow I would like to setup a cross compiler on my slackware64 machine. Does anyone know a slackware specific how to on how to setup the environment?

saxa · 09-23-2016, 11:06 AM

What about using Qemu or another virtual machine ?

saxa · 09-23-2016, 11:06 AM

I dont know if it supports the ARM arch.

ponce · 09-23-2016, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spongetron

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 running slackware-current. As compiling on the Pi is a bit slow I would like to setup a cross compiler on my slackware64 machine. Does anyone know a slackware specific how to on how to setup the environment?

http://slackware.uk/slackwarearm/sla...s/x-toolchain/
or
https://github.com/idlemoor/distcc-tools

spongetron · 09-23-2016, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

http://slackware.uk/slackwarearm/sla...s/x-toolchain/
or
https://github.com/idlemoor/distcc-tools

Thanks ponce, I will look into the distcc-tools.

drmozes · 09-24-2016, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by saxa

I dont know if it supports the ARM arch.

QEMU supports ARM (check the installation documentation on arm.slackware.com) but there's no point using QEMU - it'll be slower than your RPI.

drmozes · 09-24-2016, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ponce

http://slackware.uk/slackwarearm/sla...s/x-toolchain/
or
https://github.com/idlemoor/distcc-tools

The x-toolchain is not a full cross compiler toolchain -- e.g. you cannot use it on x86 alone - you run the build as normal on ARM and use distcc in place of gcc to farm out the compilation to x86.
alienBOB made a full toolchain when he did his hard float port. It's out of date now but probably it would not be too much work to update it.