Cross Compiling LibXml2

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Download and Unpack LibXml2
• Set Environment Variables
• Configure
• Build and Install

The following sections describe how to cross compile LibXml2 for Linux on ARM.

Requirements

You need a toolchain to cross compile for your target system.

Download and Unpack LibXml2

Download the most recent version of LibXml2 from http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html and unpack it:

tar -xvzf libxml2-<version>.tar.gz

Set Environment Variables

First we have to set the environment variables CC and CXX to our cross compiler:

export CC=/usr/local/angstrom/arm/bin/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc
export CXX=/usr/local/angstrom/arm/bin/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-g++

Configure

Now we configure the makefiles. We’re specifying that we want to compile for Linux on ARM, disabling iconv support and python bindings, and setting the install path:

./configure --host=arm-linux --without-iconv --without-python --prefix=<libxml-install-path>

Build and Install

Finally we are ready to build and install LibXml2:

make
make install