From f00d0d5fb652504ad6af2ab1a8b146b1cb86fe38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Hu Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 10:13:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add cross-compilation in sample apps guide 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 a2d75ed22a..6f04743c82 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- -- 2.20.1