[Mono-dev] Cross Compiling Mono For ARM

[Carlo Salinari]

Barry Bennett wrote:
> Does anyone have a good example of what settings to use for 
> configuring the Mono project for building for an ARM processor, 
> specifically the Atmel AT91RM9200 series?  I've read numerous posts 
> about cross compiling Mono which suggests it has been successfully 
> done but the posts never really seem to give much detail on how to do 
> it.  The few that do provide some details do not work as far as I can tell.
>
> Using the --help option with ./configure provides some details on 
> some important configuration options as follows:
>
>    --build=BUILD     configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
>    --host=HOST       cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST [BUILD]
>    --target=TARGET   configure for building compilers for TARGET [HOST]
>
> I would like to compile on a X86 Linux machine, but the generated 
> output is for the ARM platform.  Any suggestions on how to do this 
> would be appreciated.
>
>   
Hi Barry,
I'm not doing cross-buildings, but I think you can get a better 
understanding of the options you mention here:

<http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_14.html#SEC14> and 
following pages

<http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_258.html#SEC258>

Hope it helps. Welcome to the twisted Autotools world :-).

ciao,
    Carlo