Well, I use Windows for a Desktop, and have not really had much experience with OSX hands on. But what I do know is that virtualbox works really well on Windows, and Virtualbox has binaries for OSX.
I have used those Linaro binaries for Windows by the way, and for simple applications they seem to work fine *BUT* that whole avenue to me just seems wrong. Not to mention that it would be very difficult to build the kernel on Windows, but probably not impossible. Personally, I think all in all Debian is best for building Debian. But if you just need to build / compile "simple" applications. Ubuntu 14.04 has cross tools for armhf that seem to work fine. If needing help setting that up, just watch DR. Molloy's Videos on youtube from a year or two ago. Forthe original beaglebone ( white ) Substituting *armhf* tools for armel tools. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Ross Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: > I concur, I'm building a 3.8.13-bone71-1 right now on my Macbook Pro OS X > Yosemite system. I use a Transcend card reader for creating the uSD cards > from the Linux console in the VM. I've been doing this for sometime and > everything works fine. I haven't setup a cross dev system on the VM yet, > but will and expect no problems. The dist/version of Linux in my VM is > Kbuntu 14.04 32bit. The version of VirtualBox is 4.3.26 r98988. This is a > great way to go if you don't run Windoze. I'm strictly a Linux and Apple > person and very happy in that respect. > > > > On 05/29/2015 11:56 AM, William Hermans wrote: > > Probably the easiest way would be to do as Robert suggests and use a VM. > Virtualbox, and debian works fine. The only obstacle you may run into is > have an sdcard reader recognized in the VM. *if* even needed. > > Depending on what you're trying to do, and how you want to do it, a flash > card reader may not even be needed. OSX should have access to better tools > for "flashing" an sdcard than Windows. Then, one would / could just use > various tools over the host only network to transfer files between the VM > and OSX. If just simple executables, sshfs, netcat, and other standard UNIX > tool would work fine to transfer files directly from one system to the > other. > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:07 AM, rei_vilo via BeagleBoard >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm trying to cross-compile on my Mac against the BeagleBone. >> > >> > Surprisingly, the Linaro tool-chain is only available for Windows and >> Linux, >> > not Mac OS X. >> > >> > The only binary I've found so far comes from >> > >> http://www.welzels.de/blog/en/arm-cross-compiling-with-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/ >> > , but debugging doesn't work. The sysroots files aren't provided. >> > >> > Other options include: >> > >> > Mentor Graphics —previously Sourcery Mentor— but the tool-chain is no >> longer >> > free, >> > Carlson Minot but it doesn't feature hardware FPU, while Debian >> requires it. >> > >> > Most blogs suggest to create and host a Linux virtual machine. >> > >> > But all tentatives to build the tool-chain myself end with error >> messages >> > and failures. >> > >> > Any plan to deliver a tool-chain binary for Mac OS X? >> >> We don't 'provide' any toolchains.. >> >> Feel free to ping linaro about mac os x support, or setup a vm.. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
