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Sorry for the slow reply, but perl-list really isn't the right list to describe cross compiling to. It's unfortunate that at least one prominent archive is about this. perl5-porters is the correct list, although right now very few people are knowledgeable on the issues of cross compiling - nearly everyone active builds perl natively. (According to http://lists.cpan.org/, perl-dist is for "Discussion list for splitting the Perl distribution to be more flexible." But, really, it's a dormant list) We'd welcome patches to help get working cross compiling merged back into the main distribution. Nicholas Clark ----- Forwarded message from Alex Suykov <axs@ukr.net> ----- Envelope-to: nick@ccl4.org Delivery-date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:50:35 +0000 Mailing-List: contact perl-dist-help@perl.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list perl-dist@perl.org Delivered-To: perl-dist@perl.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:48:39 +0200 From: Alex Suykov <axs@ukr.net> To: perl-dist@perl.org Subject: Cross-compiling perl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) A little announcement, I guess it may be interesting for some people on this list. Some time ago I was confronted with the problem of cross-compiling perl. After messing with supplied Configure for some time, I gave up and started writing my own configure script. Now it's complete enough to be announced. http://rootshell.be/~axs/perl/perl-5.10.0-cross-0.1.tar.gz Typical invocation for native build: ./configure make make DESTDIR=... install Typical invocation for cross-build: ./configure --target=$target --sysroot=/mnt/target make make DESTDIR=... install If you're lucky, that's all you need to perform cross-build. No SSH connection to target host is needed. On the other hand, it is currently limited to relatively sane unix systems with bash, GNU make and GNU toolchains, both native and cross. The package consists of configure script itself, split into several files, top-level Makefile and couple of fixed scripts (configpm, lib/Pod/Man.pm). To use, just unpack into perl-5.10.0 source directory. It's the first public release; don't be surprised to find nasty bugs. Also, beware: some values that should be tested are just hardcoded (given default values) for now. See http://rootshell.be/~axs/perl for additional information. ----- End forwarded message -----