Cross-compilation environment

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Hello all,

I read about some ways to implement a cross-compilation environment for the Beaglebone. I’m using Debian in a VM and tried these methods:

  1. Multiarch
  2. installed the arm-linux-gnueabihf toolchain
  3. chroot method: Installed debootstrap + qemu

Method 1 has the problem of Root filesystem pollution and is only compaitble with Debian distribution. Methods 2 and 3 seemed to work well for me. The best solution in my opinion is method 3, using chroot provides a clean and organized environment, the only issue I found is that I could not use Eclipse + chroot.

So, my question is: which method do you use for cross-compilation? Is it possible to use Eclipse with a external toolchain located in a chroot?

Thanks in advance.

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I recently posted an article where I used Visual Studio Code to cross-compile C/C++ to the BBB. Instructions for symbolic debugging are included. I also went a step further than “hello world” and added an example of linking to an external library, libsdl2.

https://takeofftechnical.com/x-compile-cpp-bbb

It’s possible you could adapt the instructions for Eclipse. Visual Studio Code is pretty cool though!

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