Re: [xine-user] help: how to cross-compile xine

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi,

> Dear sir(madam),

No need to sir us, we are all equals here.

>     Recently, I have been engaging in transplanting minigui and xine
> into Intel's Sitsang board. I have successfully transplanted minigui
> into it by now. But I met some diffcult with xine, for there are few
> documents to guide me to compile it. For example, how can I run
> ./configure? In the process of transplanting minigui,I run it like
> this: CC=arm-linux ./configure
>
> --prefix=/home/sitsang/sitsang_fs/usr
>
> --build=arm-linux --target=arm-linux --host=i386-linux, where
> --prefix is the
>
> install path of the minigui's lib. I have tried to compile xine as
> above, but itfailed. Would you please tell me which options can I use
> to follow ./configue and what's the meaning of them? Do they have
> similar meanings with those in minigui?

Usually, since the configure-scripts are built with the same tool 
(autoconf), the options are all alike. You can get some explanation 
with "./configure --help". For cross-compilation, you already found the 
most interesting options:
--build specifies the system of the machine you are building on
--host specifies the system of the machine you want the binary to run on
--target is only relevant, when compiling a compiler (it specifies the 
system you want the compiler to compile for)

So if you want to build a binary to run on an arm platform, you have to 
say somthing like ./configure --host=arm-gnu-linux.

>    Another question: how can the Makefile of xine's know the install
> path of minigui? I ask the question because xine relies the on the lib
> of minigui.

If it is installed in a standard library location like /usr/lib, the 
build system will have no problem finding it. Otherwise you have to add 
the library path manually by setting LDFLAGS:
./configure LDFLAGS="-L<path>"

Michael

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