[Gambas-devel] Problems compiling Gambas for ARM Linux

[Benoit Minisini]

On lundi 09 juin 2008, Andrew Barr wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 17:07 -0400, Andrew Barr wrote:
> > It is no matter, because I have a new problem. Working around the CC
> > badness messages by disabling components missing dependencies, I have
> > built a partial install of Gambas for ARM, but the install phase fails
> > when generating the component information files, because the build
> > system tries to run gbi2, which is an ARM Linux binary, on x86_64. I am
> > not sure how to fix this problem other than to use QEMU or some more
> > elegant solution like Scratchbox. I think that QEMU can be configured,
> > along with the binfmt_misc feature of the Linux kernel, to automatically
> > run when binaries for other CPUs are executed, so maybe that is worth
> > trying.
>
> Using the Scratchbox build system, which integrates QEMU for cases like
> this, I have been able to successfully compile Gambas plus some
> components for ARM Linux. However, now it is failing to run programs,
> saying it cannot load the class file for "Balloon", which is in gb.form.
> Now, the gb.qt component is disabled, as both my handheld devices use
> GTK+, is it possible that this is the cause of the problem, or am I
> dealing with some library loading error and need to dig deeper?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Did you check the output of "make" and "make install"? No warning or errors?

Is ARM a little endian or big endian CPU?

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Benoit Minisini