AW: New member and how to cross-compile AVRDUDE

[Marius Greuel]

Hi Kristof,

> How to cross-compile AVRDUDE?

The procedure for cross compiling goes like this:
- Add another architecture to your package manager
- Download the cross toolchain and libraries
- Configure the build to use the cross toolchain and libraries

Actually, I was working on that just a couple of days ago. Although you can use 
the autoconf scripts, I recommend that you try the CMake project that I 
recently added.

Check out the GitHub Action of my personal repo:
https://github.com/mariusgreuel/avrdude/blob/windows/.github/workflows/build_cmake.yml

Note that the cross job is not complete yet. I just installed libusb, but CMake 
is not using it yet. Also, I couldn't make it work in Ubuntu, so I used a 
Debian docker image.

Marius

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> Im Auftrag von kristof.mulier@telenet.be
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 2021 14:41
> An: avrdude-dev@nongnu.org
> Betreff: New member and how to cross-compile AVRDUDE
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Short intro
> My name is Kristof Mulier. After submitting my first pull request on AVRDUDE
> (see [ https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/pull/780 |
> https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/pull/780 ] ) I decided to join the
> developers mailing list. I'm part of a small startup Embeetle IDE ( [
> https://embeetle.com/ | https://embeetle.com ] ). We create a new, free IDE
> for microcontrollers and of course, we use AVRDUDE as a flash tool for AVR
> microcontrollers. So in the name of my company - a sincere thank you for
> creating this tool!
> 
> How to cross-compile AVRDUDE?
> I work on Ubuntu 21.10. To build AVRDUDE there, I did the following:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # Install packages:
> $ sudo apt-get install build-essential git automake libtool flex bison 
> libelf-dev
> libusb-dev libftdi1-dev libhidapi-dev $ sudo apt-get install texlive texi2html
> 
> # Clone the repo:
> $ cd ~
> $ git clone https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude
> 
> # Go into the AVRDUDE src folder and run the bootstrap file $ cd ~/avrdude/src
> $ ./bootstrap
> 
> # Run the configure file that was created in previous step $ ./configure
> 
> # Build AVRDUDE (also from src folder)
> $ make
> 
> 
> 
> 
> After these steps, I end up with an avrdude executable at
> ~/avrdude/src/avrdude and a system config file at ~/avrdude/src/avrdude.conf
> . It looks like only these two files need to be in a distributed version for 
> Linux.
> All AVRDUDE distributions on Linux I have seen so far, look somewhat like 
> this:
> 
> BQ_BEGIN
> 
> 📁 avrdude_6.3.0
> ├─ 📁 bin
> │ └─ avrdude
> └─ 📁 etc
> └─ avrdude.conf
> 
> BQ_END
> 
> Now I wonder how to cross-compile AVRDUDE for Windows. Is there a way to
> do this from Linux? What about all the dll's that go into a typical AVRDUDE
> installation on Windows?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Kristof Mulier
> 
> 
>