There are flavours of arm, so make sure you emulate the right one. Also you
may need to make separate compiles for pi and pi2.

For a (large) build system that will build for various architectures you
could look at the openelec build system, although it is a bit complex to
study in one afternoon.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Timothy Musson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hullo! I hope you're all fine.
>
> Someone's asked me to provide a Raspbianized binary package of a piece
> of software I maintain. Figuring it's likely doable with QEMU, I said
> I'd give it a try.
>
> Google shows that emulating a Pi in QEMU is definitely a thing, but
> requires a kernel image that I haven't been able to track down.
> Everything points to instructions on a site that's gone awol:
> https://xecdesign.com/compiling-a-kernel/
>
> But it occurs to me that I probably don't need to emulate a Pi at all.
> I can probably get away with running an arm version of Debian on QEMU
> and making the the .deb package with that.
>
> So, before spending too much more time on it, I thought I'd ask you
> guys if that'd be a workable approach.
>
> Thanks :^)
>
> Tim
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