Confused about ARM64 cross-compilation

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 02/09/18 01:21, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I am brand new to the FreeBSD world

But long timer in OS/2, IIRC :)



> I've installed FreeBSD 11 on an x86 system, and I followed the
> instructions on https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/crossbuild to
> download the source code.  Then I download arm64_build.sh from
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64 and run that.  Now it's building
> something, but I don't know what it's doing.  Shouldn't I need to
> install a cross-compiler first?

I believe the cross compiler is in the base system (at least for recent 
versions).



I understand ARM is a wide and variegated world, so there might be 
different ways to build a system, depending on what your actual target 
is (e.g. using Crochet to build images).
What is your hardware target?

  bye
	av.