From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Hu Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: add cross compile part for sample applications Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:47:35 +0800 Message-ID: <20180917074735.28161-3-gavin.hu@arm.com> References: <20180807031943.5331-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> <20180917074735.28161-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> Cc: gavin.hu@arm.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, steve.capper@arm.com, Ola.Liljedahl@arm.com, jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, nd@arm.com, stable@dpdk.org To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180917074735.28161-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Fixes: 7cacb05655 ("doc: add generic build instructions for sample apps") Cc: stable@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli --- doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst index a2d75ed22..6f04743c8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst +++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ This section explains how to compile the DPDK sample applications. To compile all the sample applications -------------------------------------- - Set the path to DPDK source code if its not set: .. code-block:: console @@ -93,3 +92,17 @@ Build the application: export RTE_TARGET=build make + +To cross compile the sample application(s) +------------------------------------------ + +For cross compiling the sample application(s), please append 'CROSS=$(CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX)' to the 'make' command. +In example of AARCH64 cross compiling: + + .. code-block:: console + + export RTE_TARGET=build + export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk + make -C examples CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu- + or + make CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu- -- 2.11.0