Preferred Methods for Cross-Compiling

[gsobell]

Hi everyone,

I want to cross compile some programs, and the ncurses shared library. Is there any reason to prefer the provided tooling, such as:

• building the buildroot toolchain
• prebuilt toolchain
• docker Images (Under "Important Notes/For other developers" of release 2.0.0-beta)

Instead of just a generic cross-compiler targeting ARMv5TE such as:

• dockcross
• Arm GNU Toolchain
• LLVM Cross Compiling
• GCC Cross Comiling

And, any forecast if the project is going to favor either uclibc or musl going forward?

Thanks!

[Apaczer]

Hi @gsobell, if you don't want spend much time setting up your dev environment then I would go with docker containers, otherwise use buildroot. When you decide to go with BR2, then you can easly introduce changes to ncurses via package/ncurses/ncurses.mk file.

The up-to-date prebuilt SDKs can be aquired from Actions tab (the repo you mentioned is highly deprecated).