On 05.02.2026 18:07, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 12:33:54PM +0100, Bertrand Marquis wrote: >> +## Limitations >> + >> +- **Hypervisor only**: This only builds the Xen hypervisor, not the tools >> +- **Cross-compilation only**: Native builds are not supported > > Probably a more philosophical question, but is it really a cross > compilation if I'm building an arm64 Xen on Apple arm64 silicon? > > Sure, it might use a different toolchain from native, but it's still a > "native" build from an architectural perspective?
"Cross" aiui covers both OS (i.e. ABI) and hardware. Building x86 Linux binaries on e.g. Windows is "cross", too. (Strictly speaking it's the target triplet that is commonly used in at least GNU - if any part differs, it's "cross". It just so happens that Xen uses Linux'es ABI, and hence its building is native on identical-arch Linux.) Jan
