On 10 Jul 30, Amit Arora wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Vishwanath Sripathy vishwanath.sripathy@linaro.org wrote:
Amit, I tried to compile it for OMAP, but it failed to compile. Little digging showed that Make file does not seem to have entries for ARM tool chains. So I think you need to have a config file kind of thing to get powertop cross compiled for arm based platforms.
Yes, but it may not be as simple. PowerTOP uses libncursesw library to link with. Hence for cross compilation we need to make sure that this (or a non-wide char ncurses library, i.e. libncurses) should also be cross compiled for target ARM. And then we should have some option in Makefile (LIBPATH & INCPATH) to point to it.
Will it make sense to have a "readme.ARM" or some other file in powertop which describes this step ? Any suggestions on how best to do this ?
Compiling natively (on target) or in a qemu-based armel environment on the desktop will be required.
I'm hoping our debian friends will suggest some nifty tricks to make this easy.
Regards, Amit