Jeroen Demeyer on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:00:28 +0200


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Re: Cross compiling PARI/what about autoconf? 

Bill Allombert wrote:

You need to set CC to your cross compiler. Assuming 'gcc -m64' work,
just do:

CC="gcc -m64" ./Configure

For cross building i386 code on amd64, I just do:

CC="gcc -m32" ./Configure

There is a nifty tool linux32/linux64 that change the uname setting
so that the 32 and 64-bit build get different names:
For example I do:
./Configure #amd64 build CC="gcc -m32" linux32 ./Configure # i386 build 
make bench          #amd64 bench
linux32 make bench  # i386 bench
This might work with "fake" cross-compiling where you just change 32 or 64 bits, but it seems that PARI cannot support "real" cross-compiling like compiling a powerpc version on a i386 machine. That is because you execute programs in ./Configure. autoconf manages to configure (almost) everything without executing anything.