That still requires you to link locally, and I don't think we have any ARM machines with enough memory to do that.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Scott Hess <sh...@chromium.org> wrote: > > Would it be possible/reasonable to use distcc plus a farm of > cross-compiler machines to let you do faster self-hosted builds? It's > not the "right" solution, but in the past I've found it to sometimes > be an easier path to take in the short term while you're working on > fixing all the little problems. > > -scott > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Antoine Labour<pi...@chromium.org> wrote: >> >> There's growing interest from several parties in getting Chrome to >> cross-compile onto linux/ARM. Let's make sure everyone is on the same >> page so that we don't duplicate efforts. >> I understand that Joel Stanley, Dean McNamee and Lei Zhang have >> already been doing a lot of work towards that. There's a wiki page >> there: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxChromiumArm >> >> I've identified a few missing pieces to get a full version of chrome - >> there may be others. They are mostly build infrastructure issues: >> - v8 snapshotting needs to be disabled currently, we'd like to enable >> it. That means executing mksnapshot as a target executable, either >> through qemu or directly on device, i.e. the infrastructure to run a >> target program. >> - Gyp uses pkg-config to find includes/lib dependencies, i.e. it's >> going to look at the host for them. If your target distribution >> matches your host maybe you're fine, but it may not work at all, so >> it'd would be good to extract that and get a way to specify the >> dependencies explicitly. >> - The chrome os build relies on the protobuf compiler. The current >> build system builds it as a target executable, so we either need to >> run in qemu / on device it as above, or change the build system to >> understand target vs host executables. >> >> I wanted to double check if anyone was working on any of that, or if >> anyone has good ideas about how to achieve each of them. Please speak >> up ! >> >> Antoine >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
