[m-users.] ARM Linux toolchain

[Julien Fischer]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Vladimir Komendantskiy wrote:

>       I have been thinking about how to do this: we could have a new script in
>       tools, (e.g. tools/configure_arm_linux_cross) and then add a new option
>       to the configure script, --with-host-execs, which would cause it to
>       install the executables from the host system rather than build them from
>       the target system.  The new option may as well disable compilation of
>       the target executables as well since in that scenario all we care about
>       is the libraries.
> 
> 
> Sounds to be a good idea. Would that in principle allow using a bare
> metal toolchain?

That would be a significant amount of work, and certainly not possible
without radically restructing Mercury's runtime and standard libraries.

>       True, although it's only significant if you wish your cross-compiler to
>       able to compile things in the java grade.  However, since it's Java
>       you may as well just compile on the host system and copy the .jars
>       across.
>
> 
> Right. There seems to be no point enabling the Java back-end in the cross-compiler.
>
>       They are probably statically linked, against the Mercury libraries if
>       not the system ones.  Try compiling with "--mercury-linkage shared".
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion... but the sizes remain the same. I tried --linkage shared as well.

Were the shared versions of the Mercury libraries installed?

Julien.