[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk cross-compilation for ARM

[Jerry Hicks]

On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Jeremy McNamara wrote:

> Fabio Margarido wrote:
>
>> Hey there...
>> I'm trying to cross-compile Asterisk for the ARM processor, but ran
>> into some troubles.
>
> Asterisk is not friendly to cross-compile, but it can be done.   You 
> have to change many Makefiles to use the specific toolchain tools 
> (gcc, ar, ranlib, etc) for your cross compiler instead of just 
> whatever gets found in your PATH.
>
> I have pondered tweaking the various makefiles to make this process 
> easier, but I have not gotten that motivated, yet.
>

I know it's a real PITA but has anyone considered autoconf, automake, 
et al?    I've built out a system before using it and although it is a 
fair amount of work (and cursing) the end result is a familiar and 
flexible build system that a lot of people understand how to use.

You get cross-compilation support among other things with that approach.

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks