Re: Cross compilation status

[Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>]

Am Montag, dem 18.09.2023 um 17:17 +0300 schrieb Efraim Flashner:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Liliana Marie Prikler
> wrote:
> > Hi Mathieu,
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, dem 10.09.2023 um 11:14 +0200 schrieb Mathieu Othacehe:
> > > I have CC'ed members of the python, java, ruby, rust, r, haskell
> > > and
> > > emacs teams. Any plans adding cross-compilation support to your
> > > build-system, barriers to overcome?
> > For Emacs, there are layers of problems.  First things first, we
> > are only doing byte compilation atm, which may or may not be
> > arch-dependant based on stuff like endianness.  For native
> > compilation, there is the thing that even a slightly differently
> > configured emacs won't load the packages you've just compiled
> > without compiling it natively on its own.
> > Granted, if we want to do cross-compilation, having just the
> > bytecode might already be "good enough", but I wanted to throw this
> > out there.
> > 
> > I think we'd need some support from Emacs proper before we can
> > start implementing cross builds.
> 
> I will note that the only big-endian architecture which we "support"
> is 32-bit powerpc, so we don't have to worry that much about wrong
> endianness.
Fine, let's add word size to point out the obvious :)