From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from foss.arm.com (usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com [217.140.101.70]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686D72BE3; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:50:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470F380D; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from net-debian.shanghai.arm.com (net-debian.shanghai.arm.com [10.169.36.53]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4DFF53F5BD; Mon, 17 Sep 2018 03:50:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Gavin Hu To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: gavin.hu@arm.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, stable@dpdk.org Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:49:42 +0800 Message-Id: <20180917104942.14967-1-gavin.hu@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20180917074735.28161-3-gavin.hu@arm.com> References: <20180917074735.28161-3-gavin.hu@arm.com> Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4] doc: add cross compile part for sample applications X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:50:02 -0000 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 | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst index a2d75ed22..f6b31fc7b 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 +92,18 @@ 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 + cd $(pwd)/examples/ + make CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu- -- 2.11.0