Compile NTP source code for ARM

Hi friends i am working on ARM based System on module. This board is having RTC mounted on it. I have been writing application and compiling those application with the cross compiler provided with the BSP of board. Foe compiling i use to give application C file and all dependents file and a outout was generated.

Now i want to synch this RTC from NTP so i have downloaded the ntp source code from internet ntp.org site. This is a folder containing many file. Now i want to compile this so that it can run on my board please tell me that how i can compile it for generating output for my board. My dev PC is REdhat5 server. The ARM board is loaded with linux kernel. plx tell me the procedure. Thanking you all.

You hace untarred the source. Then look for configure file in it.

To compile run these in sequence:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Note: You may require devel files of glibc, gcc, binutils and others...

Originally Posted by veerain You hace untarred the source. Then look for configure file in it. To compile run these in sequence: ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install Note: You may require devel files of glibc, gcc, binutils and others...

Hi veerain thank u for reply. Actually i have to build the NTP source code for my ARM board not for my develeopment PC. So i will have to do cross compilation so that it will run on the target ARM board. As i mentioned i have cross compiler for the board but i dont know how to compile the whole NTP project source code.

So steps would be:

1) ./configure --help | less
see what program ntp requires.

2) Have them in your cross-compile toolchain

Then

3) ./configure --build=your-build-system-triplet --host=your-build-system-triplet --target=your-arm-triplet --prefix=/some-directory

triplet would be like i686-pc-linux-gnu or x86_64_unknown-linux-gnu. For arm I don't know but google around.

4) make

5) make install