Confused about ARM64 cross-compilation

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 18:21:29 -0600
Timur Tabi <timur at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> I am brand new to the FreeBSD world, and I'm trying to debug problems
> in booting FreeBSD on a new ARM64 system with ACPI.
> 
> 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?
> 

when I did arm64 compilations, I used CURRENT as certain things did not
work in older versions. You might also try 12.0 or CURRENT.

FreeBSD cross compiles out of the box. Of course, only for supported
targets.

Erich