[SOLVED] ARM cross-development on Debian?

[turboscrew]

Sorry for my rough words. I just got a bit agitated.

[reinob]

If you don't mind using unstable/experimental repositories you can add armel (and/or armhf) architectures (dpkg --add-foreign-architecture ...) and then install e.g. crossbuild-essential-armel, which will pull all required packages.

I have NOT tested this, so I don't know how good it works or if it fits your workflow. I myself use scratchbox for armel (N900) stuff, which hardly qualifies as "modern" :)

[stevepusser]

Have you bothered to read my link? I've successfully compiled a few packages for the Pi on my amd64 platform by following the procedure.

[GarryRicketson]

I've been able to cross compile using this as a general guide: http://jodal.no/2015/03/08/building-arm ... -pbuilder/

That is a good link, and he mentions using"pbuilder",
More https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/softw ... r-doc.html

[turboscrew]

No worries. The problem is solved.
I installed the crossbuild-essential-armhf (when I found out that it's not ONLY for making Debian packages).
(Took them from embedian.org/tools/debian. I also downloaded the "official" tool chain from the Raspberry Pi repo as a back-up.)
If I need tools for other architectures, I'll deal with it then.

[runfrodorun]

Sorry for my rough words. I just got a bit agitated.

I meant everybody

-RJ