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From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] crosscompile problem
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:42:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050826134238.GB8648@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050826120042.GA9061@nibiru.local>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:00:42PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> it seems that crosscompiling ocaml is currently impossible. 
> The whole ./configure stuff heavily relies on running several 
> test programs checking target stuff (ie. sizeof()).
> Of course this cannot work on cross targets. 

I did this manually for powerpc and arm targets a while ago, but I
agree that it would be nice to automate it and have it merged into the
main build system.

You might want to look at the ScratchBox approach
(http://www.scratchbox.org/) which uses an emulator like qemu to run
test programs on the target.

-- 
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-26 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-26 12:00 Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 12:18 ` [Caml-list] " David MENTRE
2005-08-26 12:33   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 12:18 ` Sebastian Egner
2005-08-26 13:50   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 13:42 ` Eric Cooper [this message]
2005-08-26 17:38   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 20:11     ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 19:50   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-26 22:47 ` skaller
2005-08-27  6:20   ` Enrico Weigelt
2005-08-28 17:39     ` Quôc Peyrot

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