[Gambas-user] SGT2_10.1 Ubuntu ARM

[John Spikowski]

On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 16:20 -0700, John Spikowski wrote:
> 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 <support at ...2529...>
> > > >
> > > > 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?

I have hit the wall with the libmysqlclient-dev install issue on ARM. If
someone has a solution then I will continue on with trying to get a
Ubuntu native ARM of Gambas3 compiled. This is going on the 'back
burner' until then.