Re: Compile on x86, run on ARM?

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Derek's issue was about compiled lua bytecode, not compiling Lua  
itself. :)

-asko


Matthew Percival kirjoitti 7.2.2006 kello 0.00:

> G'Day,
>
> > Is it possible to run compiled Lua on an architecture other than that
> > which it was compiled on? For instance, can I compile a lua script to
> > bytecode on an x86 platform and run the bytecode on an ARM platform?
>
> 	I compiled Lua on an x86 and run it on an ARM processor.  If you have
> your arm-linux- toolchain already prepared, this is one of the easier
> programs to crosscompile.  From recollection, all I did was
> edit ./config so that everything was set up for Linux, and changed gcc
> to arm-linux-gcc, then changed ln to arm-linux-ln in ./Makefile.   
> It was
> a very pain-free process.
>
> 	-- Matthew