[gst-devel] Cross-compile for ARM from Ubuntu?

[Edward Averill]

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..