[Scratchbox-users] Basic queries about scratchbox

[Toni Timonen]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 04:55:54PM +0530, harshavardhanreddy mandeepala wrote:
>     I am still not clear about one point.
> 
>     I have cross toolchain which is supplyed by the freescale ( IMX31
>    /ARM1136 Processor company). It has  Binutils,Linux kernel zimage, and
>    file system and minimum libraries to work on.

>    Now i want to cross compile some of the libraries like XServer,GTK,Gnome
>    libs ,because my application needs these library support.

>    So if i use scratchbox can i able to use those Crosscompiled tools
>    ...Because i don't want to built them once again.

Yes you can. see: http://scratchbox.org/wiki/ForeignToolchains

> 
>    I am also thinking is it possible to use QEMU instead of scratch
>    box.

Scratchbox uses qemu or sbrsh internally as its cpu-transparency
method. Qemu is easier to setup, but doesn't support all the hardware
in the world.



>    Infact i started cross compiling traditional way for some of the Libraries
>    like Xserver,atk,pango,glib.......But it is very hectic task.

It is. That is where scratchbox comes in. After the environment is
setup, there is quite a little hassle with the the actual compilation
of the packages; almost as compiling natively.


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Toni Timonen
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