There were some prototypes for Yocto that did this by running the introspection programs inside of Qemu.
Not sure on the status though. -- Christian On 08/12/2014 10:31 PM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 09:09 +0800, Rongqing Li wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I want to compile gobject-introspection for arm cpu in x86 host, >> both are linux OS. The compilation failed since g-ir-compiler >> (compiled for arm) can not run on x86. >> >> Could you tell me if it supports the cross-compile, if not, what >> should I do to enable it? is it possible that I use the host's >> g-ir-compiler/g-ir-scanner to compiler the target(arm cpu) file. > > This sounds like a typical problem you will run into when cross > compiling your stack, pkg-config is another example. > > There are probably a number of techniques you can use, and one > option to consider is to just actually build on the target > arch. If you must cross-compile, one project which I've > used with success is buildroot[0], this solves the said problem > by building two stacks, one 'staging' stack which contains > tools compiled for the build host arch, and then the target > stack which is cross compiled, executing binaries from the > 'staging' build directory. > > Cheers, > -Tristan > > PS: fwiw there is also a new gobject-introspection mailing list: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gir-devel-list > > [0]:http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ > >> >> >> -Roy >> >> >> | ./g-ir-compiler: line 117: >> /buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/build/.libs/lt-g-ir-compiler: >> >> cannot execute binary file: Exec format error >> | ./g-ir-compiler: line 117: >> /buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/build/.libs/lt-g-ir-compiler: >> >> Success >> | make[2]: *** [gir/xfixes-4.0.typelib] Error 126 >> | ./g-ir-compiler: line 117: >> /buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/build/.libs/lt-g-ir-compiler: >> >> cannot execute binary file: Exec format error >> | ./g-ir-compiler: line 117: >> /buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/build/.libs/lt-g-ir-compiler: >> >> Success >> | make[2]: *** [gir/xlib-2.0.typelib] Error 126 >> | Traceback (most recent call last): >> | File "./g-ir-scanner", line 44, in <module> >> | from giscanner.scannermain import scanner_main >> | File >> "/buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/gobject-introspection-1.40.0/giscanner/scannermain.py", >> >> line 35, in <module> >> | from giscanner.dumper import compile_introspection_binary >> | File >> "/buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/gobject-introspection-1.40.0/giscanner/dumper.py", >> >> line 28, in <module> >> | from .gdumpparser import IntrospectionBinary >> | File >> "/buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/gobject-introspection-1.40.0/giscanner/gdumpparser.py", >> >> line 31, in <module> >> | from .transformer import TransformerException >> | File >> "/buildarea1/lirq/mips/bitbake_build/tmp/work/mips64-wrs-linux/gobject-introspection/1.40.0-r0/gobject-introspection-1.40.0/giscanner/transformer.py", >> >> line 27, in <module> >> | from .girparser import GIRParser >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-devel-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
