hi edward,  i have cross-compiled gstreamer including glib, libxml and the required for arm. BTW. i use fedora core (but that shud not matter.) export the path to the cross-compilers bin dir to the path environment variable. i.e. export  PATH=<PATH_TO_TOOLCHAIN_BIN>:$PATH next what i do is, export a path for pkgconfig files. assuming im going to store all the compiled stuff to /opt/gstreamer i would to export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gstreamer/lib/pkgconfig and then the configure command for gstreamer would be ./configure --prefix=/opt/gstreamer --host=arm-linux [and of course whatever other flags u wanna specify.] NOTE: gstreamer depends on glib and libxml, so they too need to be cross compiled , unless u dont want libxml. so i would recommend that u export the PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH variables at the start of ur entire compilation procedure. starting from glib onwards... another thing u might have to do is give symbolic links to cross compiler tools i.e. ur toolchains gcc command might look like this arm-wrs-linux-gnueabi-armv5tel-glibc_small-gcc so make a symbolic link to it like arm-linux-gcc do this for all the commands in ur tool chains bin dir with the arm-wrs-linux-gnueabi-armv5tel-glibc_small- (ur toolchain prefix) prefix ___________________ see if this info helps you take care snaik <div>On 11/3/06, Edward Averill <<a href="mailto:edaverill@hotmail.com"> edaverill@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I did a search of the mailing list archives and didn't see anything that immediately popped out at me.. so.. I'm trying to cross-compile for an ARM Linux system from Ubuntu.  I have no problems cross-compiling liboil (whew!) but using configure, I've been unable to convince gstreamer to NOT use gcc!  I've set $CC to the ARM compiler, tried using the CC= in the configure command line, all to no avail.. in the output from configure I see: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for arm-linux-gcc... arm-wrs-linux-gnueabi-armv5tel-glibc_small-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... yes ..so it looks like it's finding my ARM compiler, but when it compiles I see the infamous "mode=compile gcc" instead of what the liboil compile shows, which is "mode=compile arm-wrs-linux-gnueabi-armv5tel-glibc_small-gcc".  For example, the liboil cross-compile shows the following kind of message for a compile: if /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile arm-wrs-linux-gnueabi-armv5tel-glibc_small-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..    -Wall -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -I../.. -g -O2 -MT lib_c_la-ag_clamp.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/lib_c_la-ag_clamp.Tpo" -c -o lib_c_la-ag_clamp.lo `test -f 'ag_clamp.c' || echo './'`ag_clamp.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/lib_c_la-ag_clamp.Tpo" ".deps/lib_c_la-ag_clamp.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/lib_c_la-ag_clamp.Tpo"; exit 1; fi ..but the gStreamer cross-compile shows.. if /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..    -I../../libs -I../.. -I../.. -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib- 2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2   -Wall -g -DGST_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -g -O2 -MT libgstparse_la-lex._gst_parse_yy.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/libgstparse_la-lex._gst_parse_yy.Tpo" -c -o libgstparse_la-lex._gst_parse_yy.lo `test -f 'lex._gst_parse_yy.c' || echo './'`lex._gst_parse_yy.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/libgstparse_la-lex._gst_parse_yy.Tpo" ".deps/libgstparse_la-lex._gst_parse_yy.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/libgstparse_la-lex._gst_parse_yy.Tpo"; exit 1; fi I even tried copying the installer.sh from liboil to gstreamer and rebuilding everything, same results. I've looked at a lot of pages on cross-compilation, tried every trick I've found, but still no joy. Can anyone direct me to some good resources on this topic?  and apologies if this is a newbie question... I'm sure it's a "loose nut behind keyboard" error.. All assistance appreciated. ..ed.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? 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