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Cross Compiling

autosetup is designed to make cross compiling very easy. If you have a toolchain installed with the standard GNU naming convention, cross compiling should “just work”.

For example, if you have arm-linux-cc, arm-linux-ar, etc. then building with this toolchain is as simple as:

$ ./configure --host=arm-linux

If specific options need to be passed to the compiler, they can be set by overriding CC. e.g.

$ ./configure --host=arm-linux CC="arm-linux-gcc -mbig-endian"

Note that this approach is preferred rather than setting CFLAGS as it allows the user to override CFLAGS at build time.

Overriding the cross compiler prefix

In general, --host should be used to specify the toolchain prefix. However it may be desirable to override the toolchain prefix. This is possible with the CROSS environment variable. For example:

$ ./configure --host=arm-linux CROSS=my-

This will use the C compiler, my-cc or my-gcc, the archive tool, my-ar, etc.

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