cross-compiling

How to install the Raspberry Pi cross compiler on my Linux host machine?

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I’m gonna try to write this as a tutorial for you so it becomes easy to follow. NOTE: This tutorial only works for older raspbian images. For the newer Raspbian based on Debian Buster see the following how-to in this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58559140/869402 Pre-requirements Before you start you need to make sure the following is installed: … Read more

What’s the difference of “./configure” option “–build”, “–host” and “–target”?

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As noted in this blog post and alluded to in the GCC Configure Terms, –target only applies when you are compiling toolchains. When you are doing normal cross-compilation of a library or binary you use –build=the architecture of the build machine –host=the architecture that you want the file to run on However, when you are … Read more

Cross compile Go on OSX?

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With Go 1.5 they seem to have improved the cross compilation process, meaning it is built in now. No ./make.bash-ing or brew-ing required. The process is described here but for the TLDR-ers (like me) out there: you just set the GOOS and the GOARCH environment variables and run the go build. For the even lazier … Read more

Error “gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory” while compiling Nachos source code

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You’re missing the 32 bit libc dev package: On Ubuntu it’s called libc6-dev-i386 – do sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386. See below for extra instructions for Ubuntu 12.04. On Red Hat distros, the package name is glibc-devel.i686 (Thanks to David Gardner’s comment). On CentOS 5.8, the package name is glibc-devel.i386 (Thanks to JimKleck’s comment). On CentOS … Read more

Missing include “bits/c++config.h” when cross compiling 64 bit program on 32 bit in Ubuntu

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Adding this answer partially because it fixed my problem of the same issue and so I can bookmark this question myself. I was able to fix it by doing the following: sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib If you’ve installed a version of gcc / g++ that doesn’t ship by default (such as g++-4.8 on lucid) … Read more