cross building BoF

Speaker: Helmut Grohne

Track: Packaging, policy, and Debian infrastructure

Type: BoF (45 minutes)

Room: Méridienne

Time: Jul 18 (Fri): 14:00

Duration: 0:45

Cross building is the act of building a package for a machine running a different CPU architecture, kernel or C library than the one where the build is being performed. The main use cases are initially building packages for a new architecture and building embedded OS images from source. The BoF starts with a brief presentation of what works and what does not just work. It’ll quickly lead into a discussion format.

A few ecosystems still pose fundamental difficulties with automatically cross building Debian packages. If you happen to be working on one of the following ecosystems, please tell in advance and join the BoF.

  • Fortran
  • GCC plugins
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • LLVM/Clang
  • Ocaml
  • Ruby

If you would like to cross compile a particular package, please tell in advance and join the BoF.

The precise topics will depend on the audience. We will focus on matters relevant to those who attend.

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