landley / aboriginal Goto Github PK

See history of project here: https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/blob/master/www/history.html

Note that it is missing years from about 2006 to the present. I found this page extremely interesting, and would love to see it get updated.

hi, i found about aboriginal through busybox, https://busybox.net/FAQ.html#build

i've got an ARM-based system running busybox. and i'm trying to learn how to compile simple programs for it. the examples i use were from busybox-tiny utilities (i.e. Dropbear SMTP, ntpclient).

i downloaded prebuilt compiler for arm to my linux machine (http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries/cross-compiler-armv6l.tar.gz) and unzipped into a working directory.

what i'm not sure is how to cross compile the program on my linux machine.
i navigated to directory containing 'ntpclient' and run the following:

CROSS_COMPILE="$PWD/cross-compiler-armv5l/bin/armv6l-"
CROSS_COMPILE="$CROSS_COMPILE" make

but the resulted 'ntpclient' executable seems still is for linux instead of 'arm' (it won't run on my embedded system).

need some pointers on how to use aborginal Prebuilt Binaries.