Cross-compiling Nginx for SAMA5D3 Xplained board

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Hello,

I would like to run Nginx on my SAMA5D3 Xplained board.

I have a newbie questions:

I try to cross-compiling Nginx on my PC running Ubuntu with SAMA5D3
Xplained
cross-compiling, then I modify the environmental parameters of Ubuntu
for
CC, AR, LD, RANLIB and STRIP:

=====================
root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30# export
CC=/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30# export
AR=/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ar
root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30# export
LD=/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld
root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30# export
RANLIB=/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ranlib
root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30# export
STRIP=/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-strip

But it fails from the start:

=====================
root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30# ./configure
–prefix=/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/target/var/www/nginx-arm
checking for OS

  • Linux 3.5.0-51-generic x86_64
    checking for C compiler … found but is not working

./configure: error: C compiler
/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc is
not
found

root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30# ll
/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 u12 u12 21 Jun 3 13:35
/home/u12/buildroot-at91/output/host/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc →
ext-toolchain-wrapper*
root@ubuntu:/home/u12/Desktop/JJ/nginx-0.8.30#

How should I set things up so that I can try cross-compiling Nginx?

Thanks for any help.

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Hello!

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:51:18PM -0400, willy7841 wrote:

Hello,

I would like to run Nginx on my SAMA5D3 Xplained board.

I have a newbie questions:

I try to cross-compiling Nginx on my PC running Ubuntu with SAMA5D3 Xplained
cross-compiling, then I modify the environmental parameters of Ubuntu for
CC, AR, LD, RANLIB and STRIP:

[…]

How should I set things up so that I can try cross-compiling Nginx?

Cross-compilation is not something nginx supports.

–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/

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Hello Maxim D.,

Thank you for your explanation.

If I would like to run Nginx on embedded board, how could I do?

Thanks for your help.

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On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:43:18PM -0400, willy7841 wrote:

Hello Maxim D.,

Thank you for your explanation.

If I would like to run Nginx on embedded board, how could I do?

Thanks for your help.

In short, you have to rework configure tests that currently depend
on host system to build and execute test binaries.

You are not the first person though who needs to cross-compile and
may want to search mailing list/google for similar attempts, for
example:

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2011-December/001666.html

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Hello Homutov V.,

Thank you for your explanation.

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Hello!

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 08:47:41AM +0400, Homutov V. wrote:

In short, you have to rework configure tests that currently depend
on host system to build and execute test binaries.

You are not the first person though who needs to cross-compile and
may want to search mailing list/google for similar attempts, for example:

Cross Compiling Nginx

Much easier approach is to just compile on the board itself and/or
in the emulated environment.

–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/