[Mono-dev] SGEN support when cross compiling

[Zoltan Varga]

Hi,

  It might be easier to compile on the device itself using distcc+a cross
compiler.

          Zoltan


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Bassam Tabbara <bassam at symform.com> wrote:

>  Thanks Rodrigo. Is there a trick then to bypass the __thread check
> during configuration?
>
>  ./configure --host=armv5te-unknown-linux-gnueabi
>
>  Fails with:
>
>  configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
>
>  I worked around it with the following:
>
>
> https://github.com/symform/mono/commit/fe5c582a1a2d241f368c86081b3cb7ea53994f51
>
>  Do others not see this?
>
>   From: Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, August 26, 2013 4:30 PM
> To: Bassam Tabbara <bassam at symform.com>
> Cc: "mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com" <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] SGEN support when cross compiling
>
>   sgen works fine on ARM and so does cross compiling to it.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Bassam Tabbara <bassam at symform.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  I'm working in mono master, and it looks like sgen is not support when
>> cross compiling. Sgen requiren with-tls=__thread and during configuration a
>> check is made if __thread is functioning and that fails with the following
>> error when cross compiling:
>>
>>  configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling
>> [
>>
>>  I can work around this but disable the check during configuration, but
>> I'm now wondering whether anyone is using sgen on ARM platforms? Are you
>> cross compiling for those platforms? I must be missing something simple
>> here.
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>  Bassam
>>
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