Re: Cross compiling user applications for armv7

I have finally managed
  poudriere jail -c -x -j armv7 -m git+https -a arm.armv7 -v releng/14.3 -K GENERIC
to work.
I see that it cross compiles the systems.
This is pointless and redundant as I have already cross compiled the system on my own.
How can I tell poudriere to use the system I have compiled on my own?

I also started wondering why is qemu even required?
The cross compiler toolchain is already prepared and ready-to-use after system compilation.
The ports descriptions already exist.
Why can't I simply cross compile ports?
This task does not require qemu, as I don't want to run resulting binaries on host.
I just wont to cross compile ports and place them on the target file system.
Qemu shouldn't be required for that.

Regards,
Michał Kruszewski


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On Sunday, September 14th, 2025 at 2:33 PM, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 09:24:07AM +0000, Michał Kruszewski wrote:
> 
> > I actually build system from the current main branch.
> > How do I set up poudriere in such a case?
> 
> 
> I'd do it like this, on amd64:
> 
> install poudriere-devel and configure poudriere.conf for your system.
> (copy /usr/local/etc/poudriere.conf.sample to poudriere.conf and
> edit it)
> install qemu-user-static
> run this: 'binmiscctl enable armv7'
> then
> 
> poudriere jail -c -j armv7 -J10 -a arm.armv7 -m git+https -K GENERIC-NODEBUG -v main
> 
> the -J corresponding to the number of cores you may have.
> 
> Note that poudriere uses qemu-user-static for cross-compilation and
> you can't build rust (or anything that uses rust) with it, as far as
> I'm aware.
> --