Note this remark by upstream in xmpp:c...@dino.im?join :
[12:55:59] larma: debacle: I did cross compile dino. You probably don't want to use the ./configure script for it, but use CMake directly
> [13:00:14] larma: All I had to do was to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
and CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE
> [13:01:13] larma: We don't use valac's compilation feature (we
only use it for transpiling), so there shouldn't be any issues specific to vala
> [13:03:29] larma: But that was on Fedora, not Debian