[MPlayer-dev-eng] crosscompiling status

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 10 February 2006 at 19:44, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> I'm curious about the current status of cross compiling ability.
> (there were some discussions several weeks/month ago)
> 
> I've made some patches to make a sysroot'ed cross-build running.
> They're not very up-to-date, tested against 1.0.5.0 and 1.0.6.1
> (currently checking against 1.0.7.2).
> 
> Maybe someone likes to have a look at them:
> 
>     rsync://sources.metux.de/metux-patches/mplayer/
> 
> 
> There's at least one big problem to solve:
> 
> + ./configure (tries to) detect the cputype (ie. by looking at /proc).
>   This is obviously wrong when crosscompiling - we need some way
>   to pass the cputype manually.

Please try latest CVS checkout, it is perfectly cross-compilable AFAIR.

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Yay! Another B5 fan. ^_^

Regards,
R.

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