Even with gold? On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Dean McNamee <de...@chromium.org> wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
