Cross Compilation of VLC 0.8.6a for TI's Davinci Platform

[amareshram]

Hi,

I am trying to configure VLC 0.8.6a for TI Davinci Platform.
TI Davinci Platform has ARM926EJ-S architecture based processor and platform is available with montavista linux with kernal v 2.6.10.

the cross compiler for gcc is arm_v5t_le-gcc.

can someone help me to put the right configuration parameter for host, target and build?

regards/Amaresh

[amareshram]

I tried with following configuration:

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./bootstrap &&
PATH=/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi/bin:$PATH \
CFLAGS="-D__stdcall= -D_OFF_T_ -I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/include" \
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/include" \
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/lib" \
LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/lib" \
LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/lib" \
./configure --host=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi --target=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi \
--build=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi --prefix=/usr/local/arm_v5t_le \
--disable-sdl --disable-gtk --disable-dvdnav --disable-dvdread \
--disable-nls --disable-sout --disable-vlm --disable-wxwindows \
--disable-a52 --disable-libmpeg2 --disable-freetype --disable-fribidi \
--disable-mad --disable-plugins --enable-optimize-memory \
--enable-tremor --enable-faad
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it produces following error:
--------------------------------------------
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking for armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
--------------------------------------------

Find below the content of the config.log
----------------------------------------------
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by vlc configure 0.8.6a, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure --host=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi --target=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi --build=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi --prefix=/usr/local/arm_v5t_le --disable-sdl --disable-gtk --disable-dvdnav --disable-dvdread --disable-nls --disable-sout --disable-vlm --disable-wxwindows --disable-a52 --disable-libmpeg2 --disable-freetype --disable-fribidi --disable-mad --disable-plugins --enable-optimize-memory --enable-tremor --enable-faad

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = localhost.localdomain
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Sat Aug 12 09:39:11 CDT 2006

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi/bin
PATH: /usr/kerberos/bin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin
PATH: /home/amaresh/bin
PATH: /usr/ppc/bin
PATH: /opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/bin
PATH: /opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/bin
PATH: /opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1765: checking build system type
configure:1783: result: armv5tl-montavista-linux-gnueabi
configure:1791: checking host system type
configure:1805: result: armv5tl-montavista-linux-gnueabi
configure:1813: checking target system type
configure:1827: result: armv5tl-montavista-linux-gnueabi
configure:1856: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:1911: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:1922: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:1965: result: yes
configure:1998: checking for gawk
configure:2014: found /bin/gawk
configure:2024: result: gawk
configure:2034: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2054: result: yes
configure:2227: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles
configure:2236: result: yes
configure:2268: checking for armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi-gcc
configure:2297: result: no
configure:2306: checking for gcc
configure:2322: found /opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi/bin/gcc
configure:2332: result: gcc
configure:2576: checking for C compiler version
configure:2579: gcc --version </dev/null >&5
gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (MontaVista 3.4.3-25.0.30.0501131 2005-07-23)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:2582: $? = 0
configure:2584: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
Reading specs from /opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/bin/../lib/gcc/armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi/3.4.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi --prefix=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le --exec-prefix=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le --bindir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/bin --sbindir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/sbin --sysconfdir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/etc --datadir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/share --includedir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/include --libdir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/lib --libexecdir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/libexec --localstatedir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/var --sharedstatedir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/share --mandir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/man --infodir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/info --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --program-transform-name=s,^,arm_v5t_le-, --enable-cross --with-sysroot=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/target --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-threads=posix --disable-multilib --with-gxx-include-dir=${prefix}/lib/gcc/armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi/3.4.3/../../../../target/usr/include/c++/3.4.3 --with-numa-policy=yes --with-float=soft --with-cpu=arm10tdmi --with-interwork --with-arch=armv5t --with-tune=arm10tdmi --libexecdir=/opt/montavista/foundation/devkit/arm/v5t_le/lib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.3 (MontaVista 3.4.3-25.0.30.0501131 2005-07-23)
configure:2587: $? = 0
configure:2589: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: `-V' option must have argument
configure:2592: $? = 1
configure:2615: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2618: gcc -I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/include -L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/lib conftest.c >&5
configure:2621: $? = 0
configure:2667: result: a.out
configure:2672: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2678: ./a.out
./configure: line 2679: ./a.out: cannot execute binary file
configure:2681: $? = 126
configure:2690: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

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ac_cv_prog_make_make_set=yes
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## Output variables. ##
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## confdefs.h. ##
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#define PACKAGE_NAME "vlc"
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configure: exit 1
----------------------------------------------

can someone help me to resolve this problem?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

echo $CC ?

[amareshram]

I have changed the --host to --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu in the configuration and now the configuration is set for cross-compilation.

Though the configuration still fails as it is looking for FFMPEG file hirarchy so now I am making the contrib for VLC.

[amareshram]

I am able to successfully configured the VLC 0.8.6a for cross compilation for TI's Davinci Platform. But compilation fails at the time of linking the various binary with following reason:

/usr/lib/libpng.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [vlc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/amaresh/vlc-0.8.6a'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I don't understand why it is picking the .so from /usr/lib. I tried to modify the LDFLAGS setting for PNG to the targets's "/usr/lib" i.e. "target/usr/lib" in vlc-config but still it gives the same error.

Can some one help me to resolve the error?

My configuration for the cross-compilation is as follows:

./bootstrap &&
PATH=$PATH:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/bin: \
PATH=/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/bin:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/bin:$PATH \
PATH=/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi/bin:$PATH \
PATH=/usr/local/arm_v5t_le/contrib/freetype/bin:$PATH \
PATH=/usr/local/arm_v5t_le/contrib/fribidi/bin:$PATH:$SPATH \
CFLAGS="-I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/target/usr/include" \
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/include" \
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/include" \
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/include" \
CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/target/usr/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/target/usr/lib" \
LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/lib" \
LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/lib" \
LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/lib" \
CC=arm_v5t_le-gcc \
CXX=arm_v5t_le-g++ \
AR=arm_v5t_le-ar \
LD=arm_v5t_le-ld \
RANLIB=arm_v5t_le-ranlib \
STRIP=arm_v5t_le-strip \
./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi \
--build=armv5tl-montavista-linuxeabi --prefix=/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/target/usr/local/arm_v5t_le \
--with-ffmpeg-tree=/home/amaresh/vlc-lib/ffmpeg-20051126 \
--disable-sdl --disable-gtk --disable-dvdnav --disable-dvdread \
--disable-nls --disable-sout --disable-vlm --disable-wxwindows \
--disable-a52 --disable-libmpeg2 --disable-skins2 \
--disable-mad --disable-plugins --enable-optimize-memory \
--enable-fribidi --with-fribidi-config-path=/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/target/usr/local/arm_v5t_le/contrib/bin

[dheepan]

Its quite normal....U need to check wheather that particular .so is present in ur arm tool chain or not...if it is,give the corresponding arm tool path for that .so..if not no other go u need to download its source code and cross compile it to ur necessary .so

-dheep