02.08.2018, 19:50, "Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]>: > On Thursday, 2 August 2018 07:16:18 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >> Unfortunately, Debian does not use cross-compilation for building packages > > Which is unfortunately the case for most (if not all) Linux distributions as a > significant number of frameworks and applications don't cross compile at all. > So they need to compile on target.
Do you have any prominent examples? I'm working on embedded software for 8 years, me and my colleagues have dealt with various open source packages, we've never needed to resort to compilation on target or qemu environment. There are cross-compiled embedded distros like Buildroot which include thousands of packages. > > Sometimes it's an option to use an emulated environment (qemu), but often > that's even slower than on target. A hybrid approach that runs under qemu and > runs a native cross compiler disguised as a target compiler is also possible, > but not easy to achieve. > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
