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[v2] doc: add cross compile part for sample applications

Message ID 20180917021323.27241-1-gavin.hu@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Series [v2] doc: add cross compile part for sample applications |

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Gavin Hu Sept. 17, 2018, 2:13 a.m. UTC 
  Fixes: 7cacb05655 ("doc: add generic build instructions for sample apps")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
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 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Nov. 19, 2018, 12:19 a.m. UTC | #1 
17/09/2018 04:13, Gavin Hu:
> Fixes: 7cacb05655 ("doc: add generic build instructions for sample apps")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>

Applied, thanks
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diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst
index a2d75ed22..6f04743c8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/compiling.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@  This section explains how to compile the DPDK sample applications.
 To compile all the sample applications
 --------------------------------------
 
-
 Set the path to DPDK source code if its not set:
 
     .. code-block:: console
@@ -93,3 +92,17 @@  Build the application:
 
         export RTE_TARGET=build
         make
+
+To cross compile the sample application(s)
+------------------------------------------
+
+For cross compiling the sample application(s), please append 'CROSS=$(CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX)' to the 'make' command.
+In example of AARCH64 cross compiling:
+
+    .. code-block:: console
+
+        export RTE_TARGET=build
+        export RTE_SDK=/path/to/rte_sdk
+        make -C examples CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu-
+               or
+        make CROSS=aarch64-linux-gnu-