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Improve cross-compile support (#634) 
* Update minimum CMake version requirement to get rid of warning.
* Include CMake compile commands for easier diagnostics.
* More improvements to arm toolchain selection while cross-compiling third-party dependencies.
* Use x-tools provided cmake toolchains
* Add a script to download and extract deb dependencies for crosscompile.
* Link against libstdc++ statically when cross-compiling to ARM to improve portability.
* Update GeneratePackage.cmake to generate better filenames.
* Ensure symbols are stripped properly when cross-compiling
* Remove old scripts that are no longer required
* Add script to install x-tools
* Add some docs that describe how to setup a crosscompile environment.
* Add docs for building standlone on Linux
* Update CHANGELOG
* Update version hash.
2023-09-07 22:05:43 -07:00

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Prerequisites

Cross compiling depends on:

  • A working "standalone" build environment (see here)
  • A working Raspberry Pi Buster environment, either via chroot (see here) or on a physical device

Gather dependencies from a Raspbian install

The cross-compile toolchain ships with a minimal system "image" that does not include all of the third-party dependencies we need to compile musikcube.

To obtain these dependencies we need to boot into the chroot environment and execute a script to download and collect the latest versions of the headers and libraries so we can add them to the cross-compile toolchain.

  1. Enter the chroot environment (or boot your device)
  2. apt-get update
  3. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  4. cd /build/sysroot
  5. node /build/musikcube/script/create-crosscompile-sysroot.js

After this process completes you will be left with a file called sysroot.tar.

Install the cross-compile toolchain

The cross-compile toochains that ship with Debian and Ubuntu generally do not fully support armv6, which means we cannot use them to generate builds for older Raspberry Pi devices.

Instead, we'll install a better maintained toolchain from the following github project: https://github.com/tttapa/docker-arm-cross-toolchain

  1. cd /build
  2. cp /path/to/generated/sysroot/sysroot.tar .
  3. node /build/musikcube/script/install-crosscompile-tools.js

This will download the cross-compile tools to the current directory, extract them, then use the sysroot.tar to populate the tools' environments.

Use cross-compile toolchain to compile dependencies

In order to facilite easy, efficient distribution of musikcube binaries, we compile various dependencies ourselves, omitting unused features and ensuring the entire package is "relocatable," meaning users can run them from anywhere (i.e. they don't need to be installed to /usr/ or /usr/local/ to work properly).

  1. cd /build
  2. CROSSCOMPILE=rpi-armv6 ./musikcube/script/build-vendor-libraries.sh

When this has finished, you'll be left with a vendor-rpi-armv6 directory that the main app compile will reference.

Build the main app

Now that we have all of our dependencies available it's time to compile the main app.

  1. cd /build/musikcube
  2. CROSSCOMPILE=rpi-armv6 ./script/archive-standalone-nix.sh 3.0.2