[OpenPower-Firmware] Building on x86 host

[Bill Alexander]

Thanks everyone for the rapid fire and enthusiastic responses!  I'll give
it a go.

Bill

On Nov 3, 2016 4:03 PM, "Samuel Mendoza-Jonas" <sam at mendozajonas.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 10:00 +1100, Samuel Mendoza-Jonas wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 14:48 -0700, Bill Alexander wrote:
> > > It's unclear to me from looking through the documentation and some of
> the files in
> > >
> > >     https://github.com/open-power/op-build
> > >
> > > whether op-build supports cross-compilation from an x86 host.
> > >
> > > I'd like to be able to build the firmware from my laptop.  Maybe
> there's a Vagrant environment (or similar) with the PPC cross-compiler and
> binutils already installed?
> >
> > It does! op-build (or rather, buildroot) builds the cross compiler
> itself, so
> > there should be no issue building it on your laptop. It might take a
> while
> > though :)
>
> Perhaps I should have let all my new mail load before replying to a topic
> with
> two answers already - but at least you definitely have an answer!
>
> Now where's my coffee..
>
>
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