Cross-compiling Nginx for ARM?

[djczaski at gmail.com]

I've compiled for ARM A8.  The biggest issue was configuring to use the system OpenSSL and pcre libraries.  other than that , no problems.

On Apr 12, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 01:22:14PM -0400, Shohreh wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'd like to run Nginx on the SheevaPlug
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug), which is based on Marvell's
>> Kirkwood 88F6281 (ARM9E/ARMv5TE).
>> 
>> I have a couple of newbie questions:
>> 
>> 1. The archives of the mailing list
>> (http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,227934,228360#msg-228360) include a
>> reference to those ports based on older versions:
>> 
>> http://packages.debian.org/search?arch=arm&keywords=nginx
>> Based on 1.2.1-2.2
>> 
>> http://nginx.org/packages/debian/pool/nginx/n/nginx/
>> Based on 1.2.8-1
>> 
>> Currently (www.nginx.org/en/CHANGES), the latest Nginx source is 1.3.15. Why
>> are those ports based on older code? Because it's not just a matter of
>> recompiling, but it also requires making changes to the source code so Nginx
>> can run on ARM?
> 
> Latest stable is 1.2.8, and that's what you see in the official 
> repository.  Latest mainline is 1.3.15, it is available in a 
> separate repository, see here:
> 
> http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline
> 
>> 2. I tried cross-compiling Nginx on a PC running Ubuntu with Marvell's
>> cross-compiler (www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/plug-basic/), but it fails
>> right from the start:
>> 
>> ====================
>> ~/nginx-1.2.6# ./configure
>> --with-cc=/root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc
>> 
>> checking for OS
>> + Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686
>> checking for C compiler ... not found
>> 
>> ./configure: error: C compiler
>> /root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc is not found
>> 
>> ~/nginx-1.2.6# ll /root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 fred fred 180000 Feb 26  2008
>> /root/LinuxHost/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/gcc*
>> ====================
>> 
>> How should I set things up so that I can try cross-compiling Nginx?
> 
> We don't really support cross-compilation in our configure/build 
> system, but there were reports of success with relatively few 
> tweaks to configure.  You may try to look into ./objs/autoconf.err 
> for more information on what fails during configure.
> 
> -- 
> Maxim Dounin
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