Building for ARM systems

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz at gnome.org> wrote:
> Hello Aleix,
>
> Sorry for being late to the party, but I thought I should mention that GNOME
> has an ARM server in our racks donated by ARM themselves that we recently
> provisioned and right now is sitting idle AFAIK.
>
> I'm pretty sure we can figure a way to give you access to VM running in that
> box for your build purposes. Is that something that would help you?
>
>
> 2017-03-07 2:05 GMT+00:00 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
>>
>> Dear Flatpak'ers,
>> As some of you already know, I've been poking around trying to find
>> some kind of system where we can build the KDE runtime and
>> applications for ARM.
>> Now I can add that it's been without much luck. I'm sending this
>> e-mail with my experience to put the problem in perspective so we can
>> see if there's something we can do about it.
>>
>> To clarify a bit, my goal initially was to get to run our applications
>> on the Plasma Phone through Flatpak [1]. It's a Nexus 5, running an
>> armhf ubuntu-based beast.
>>
>> To compile it I thought it would work just to get a cheap-ish hosting
>> service and use it for to build the binaries. I tried:
>> - scaleway: there it wouldn't even start doing anything, presumably
>> because it was missing neon?
>> - "mything beasts" rpi hosting: somebody suggested it on #flatpak, the
>> distro they have is too old and we can't add the ppa there for
>> dependencies reasons. Didn't push it further.
>> - rpi3 at home: using the SD was unbearably slow (we're talking ~1h to
>> install the Freedesktop SDK) and I didn't have much time to spend on
>> it. There could be some optimal set up, but I'm not convinced.
>>
>> Anybody has a good idea of how to proceed?
>> Would it make sense to invest some time into seeing if it's possible
>> to cross-compile? I've seen some approach WRT using qemu too.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Aleix
>>
>> [1] https://twitter.com/AleixPol/status/834051053645594624
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Hi Alberto, Andrea,
While it seems to be working under QEmu on my personal desktop
machine, it doesn't look like a future-proof approach. Being able to
use a system where to work on it would certainly be welcome
(especially seeing the speeds I get from qemu).

Aleix