Re: [Gambas-user] SGT2_10.1 Ubuntu ARM

[John S. <su...@sc...>]

On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 11:26 -0700, John Spikowski wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 19:07 +0200, Emil Lenngren wrote:
> > 2012/8/10 John Spikowski <su...@sc...>
> > >
> > > I'm curious, was the Raspberry Pi Gambas3 binary distribution built with
> > > a cross compiler (on Intel/AMD Linux) or native under Ubuntu ARM on the
> > > Pi?
> > >
> > >
> > There is not a single "the gambas3 binary distribution", but one for each
> > distro. I think most of them are cross-compiled, because there is no reason
> > to compile directly on the Pi. As long as the same compiler is used on both
> > machines, identical machine code should be produced.
> > 
> > I can recommend a program called "distcc" which replaces the gcc program on
> > the Pi with another that calls gcc with arm target on a remote computer on
> > the network. All preprocessing, linking etc. is done on the Pi, so include
> > files and libraries do not need to be available on the remote machine, only
> > on the Pi. "crosstool-ng" can be used to set up a cross-compiler.
> > 
> > /Emil
> 
> I guess I have different goals. 
> 
> I'm trying to build a native ARM development environment. Android Linux
> is too restrictive and the chroot option seems to be just what I'm
> looking for.
> 
> I was able to get the auto* tools compiled last night on my SGT2_10.1
> and will try a test compile of Gambas3 from svn trunk today.

I'm having a problem getting the mysql-client-dev requirement for Gambas
install on Ubuntu ARM. (see attached screen shot)

Any ideas how to get around this?