Re: Cross-compilation missing library

[emmanuel_mayssat@lynceantech.com]

> > We agree that epics itself should be build with arm arch to build arm iocs.
> > So I need to have the epics arm libs on my system before compiling the
> > iocs. Well, for epics that's easy since we build from source and epics has
> > only 'standard_c_lib' dependencies. Now what about non-standard libs (like
> > flex ;), which I could yum/apt-get. Do I need to compile them from source
> > against the crosstool? And what about the dependencies of the dependencies
> > ?
> 
> You're outside my range of expertise there.  If you're using a Debian-derived 
> Linux and tool-chain or similar that provides those libs pre-built for ARM 
> then you should be able to fetch and install them using the standard tools, 
> but that's outside the realm of the EPICS developers.

It turns out qemu-arm is used just for that.
Bing or google it and you will see how to build an arm virtual machine (in user space) on
an intel cpu. FYI. 

-- 
Emmanuel