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================================================================================
                           Cross compiling Erlang/OTP                           
================================================================================

%CopyrightBegin%

Copyright Ericsson AB 2009. All Rights Reserved.

The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
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Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
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%CopyrightEnd%

================================================================================

This directory contains a configuration file template and configuration examples
for cross compiling Erlang/OTP. The configuration files contain configuration
variables and should be supplied to the $ERL_TOP/otp_build when setting up an
appropriate environment for cross compiling. The currently used configuration
variables are described later in this document.

The erl-xcomp.conf.template contains all available configuration variables
and can be used as a template when creating a configuration. See the
erl-xcomp-TileraMDE2.0-tilepro.conf for an example of a working configuration
file.

Instead of using the configuration files one can export the configuration
variables as ordinary environment variables before calling otp_build. If
default behavior of a variable is satisfactory, the variable need not to
be set and exported.

Note that the support for cross compiling is in its early stage of development,
and should be considered as experimental. The build system including cross
compilation configuration variables used may be subject to non backward
compatible changes without prior notice. It works for cross compiling some
Linux/GNU systems, but has only been partly tested for more esoteric platforms.
The VxWorks example file is highly dependent on our environment and is here
more or less only for internal use.

Please submit any patches for cross compiling in a way consistent with this
system. If a new configuration variable is needed for your system, add it to the
template file, use it in otp_build, aclocal.m4 and/or configure.in. All input is
welcome as we cannot possibly have all cross compiling environments out there to
test with.

General information on how to submit patches can be found at:
  http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp/submitting-patches

== Build and Install ===========================================================

 [1]  $ cd $ERL_TOP

Either set up your cross compilation variables in the environment manually,
or set up the environment using a configuration file by executing:
 [2]  $ eval `./otp_build env_cross <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_XCONF_FILE>`

Configure and build Erlang/OTP:
 [3]  $ ./otp_build configure
 [4]  $ ./otp_build boot -a
 [5]  $ ./otp_build release -a <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_RELEASE_ROOT>

The Install script used when installing Erlang/OTP requires common Unix
tools such as 'sed' to be present in your PATH. If your target system
does not have such tools, you need to run the Install script on your
build machine before packing Erlang/OTP. If so, run the Install script
like follows; otherwise skip [6] and [7]:
 [6]  $ cd <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_RELEASE_ROOT>
 [7]  $ ./Install -cross <ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_ROOT_ON_TARGET> # answer questions

Pack Erlang/OTP as follows (gnu tar is assumed):
 [8]  $ cd <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_RELEASE_ROOT>
 [9]  $ tar -zcf <WHERE_TO_SAVE_THE_RELEASE>/<RELEASE_NAME>.tar.gz *

Install Erlang/OTP on the target system like follows. If you ran the Install
script before packing ([6] and [7]) you should skip [12]:
 [10] $ cd <ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_ROOT_ON_TARGET>
 [11] $ tar -zxf <WHERE_THE_PACKED_RELEASE_EXIST>/<RELEASE_NAME>.tar.gz
 [12] $ ./Install <ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_ROOT_ON_TARGET> # answer questions

<ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_ROOT_ON_TARGET> usually equals current working directory
when you run the Install script on the target system, but does not have to.
It can follow another path through the file system to the same directory.
<ABSOLUTE_INSTALL_ROOT_ON_TARGET> is the path that will be used when running
Erlang/OTP and is the path that have to be available at run time.

== Currently used configuration variables ======================================

-- Mandatory -------------------------------------------------------------------

* erl_xcomp_host
  Target system. The value will be passed as '--host' argument to the configure
  script. It does not have to be a full CPU-VENDOR-OS triplet, but can be. The
  full CPU-VENDOR-OS triplet will be created by:
    $ERL_TOP/erts/autoconf/config.sub $erl_xcomp_host

-- Optional --------------------------------------------------------------------

* erl_xcomp_configure_flags
  To override the configure flags for a special target system, you
  can set this variable which overrides configure parameters on the 
  command line and instead uses the specified options. The variable
  leaves the build-host system untouched.

-- Optional build environment flags --

If the cross compilation tools aren't prefixed by '$erl_xcomp_host-',
you will have to use these configuration variables in order to use the
right cross compilation tools.

* erl_xcomp_cc
  C compiler.

* erl_xcomp_ld
  Linker.

* erl_xcomp_cflags
  C compiler flags.

* erl_xcomp_cpp
  C pre processor.

* erl_xcomp_ldflags
  Linker flags.

* erl_xcomp_ranlib
  Ranlib program.

* erl_xcomp_ar
  Ar program.

* erl_xcomp_ded_ld
  Dynamic Erlang Driver linker.

* erl_xcomp_ded_ldflags
  Dynamic Erlang Driver linker flags.

* erl_xcomp_ded_ld_runtime_library_path
  Dynamic Erlang Driver runtime linker path.

-- Optional feature, or bug tests --

These tests cannot (always) be done automatically when cross compiling. You
usually does not need to set these variables. Only set these if you really
know what you are doing.

* erl_xcomp_bigendian - yes|no
  If yes, the target system must be big endian. If no, little endian. This can
  often be automatically detected, but not always. If not automatically
  detected, configure will fail unless this variable is set. No default value
  is used, i.e., configure will try to figure this out automatically.

* erl_xcomp_linux_clock_gettime_correction - yes|no (defaults to yes)
  If yes, clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, _) on the target system must work.
  This variable is recommended to be set to no on Linux systems with kernel
  versions less than 2.6.

* erl_xcomp_linux_nptl - yes|no (defaults to yes on Linux; otherwise, no)
  If yes, the target system must have NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library).
  Older Linux systems have LinuxThreads instead of NPTL (Linux kernel
  versions typically less than 2.6).

* erl_xcomp_linux_usable_sigusrx - yes|no (defaults to yes)
  If yes, the SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 must be usable by the ERTS. Old
  LinuxThreads thread libraries (Linux kernel versions less than 2.2) used
  these signals and made them unusable by the ERTS.

* erl_xcomp_linux_usable_sigaltstack - yes|no (defaults to yes)
  If yes, sigaltstack() must be usable on the target system. sigaltstack()
  on Linux kernel versions less than 2.4 are broken.

* erl_xcomp_poll - yes|no (defaults to no on Darwin/MacOSX; otherwise, yes)
  If yes, the target system must have a working poll() implementation that also
  can handle devices. If no, select() will be used instead of poll().

* erl_xcomp_kqueue - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have a working kqueue() implementation that
  returns a file descriptor which can be used by poll() and/or select().
  If no and the target system has not got epoll() or /dev/poll, the kernel-poll
  feature will be disabled.

* erl_xcomp_putenv_copy - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have a putenv() implementation that stores a
  copy of the key/value pair.

* erl_xcomp_reliable_fpe - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have reliable floating point exceptions.

* erl_xcomp_getaddrinfo - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have a working getaddrinfo() implementation
  that can handle both IPv4 and IPv6.

* erl_xcomp_gethrvtime_procfs_ioctl - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have a working gethrvtime() implementation
  and is used with procfs ioctl().

* erl_xcomp_clock_gettime - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have a working clock_gettime() implementation
  that can be used for retrieving process CPU time.

* erl_xcomp_after_morecore_hook - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have a working __after_morecore_hook that can
  be used for tracking used malloc() implementations core memory usage.

* erl_xcomp_dlsym_brk_wrappers - yes|no (defaults to no)
  If yes, the target system must have a working dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, <S>)
  implementation that can be used on 'brk' and 'sbrk' symbols used by the
  malloc() implementation in use, and by this track the malloc() implementations
  core memory usage.

================================================================================