[vbox-dev] Cross-building VBox

[Michael Thayer]

Hello Vladimir,

On 26/04/13 20:16, Vladimir Filipović wrote:
> Is there a straightforward way to build VBox on one platform,
> targeting another? Specifically, I'm trying to build the Mac version
> in a Linux environment.
>
> At a very superficial read, the ./configure script seems to make
> assumptions that the build environment will also be the running
> environment. (BUILD_PLATFORM=$OS; BUILD_TARGET=$OS)
>
> I've tried just manually changing BUILD_TARGET to "darwin" before
> running kmk, but (unsurprisingly) that didn't work.

Short answer: no, though we have done that sort of thing internally (not 
Mac on Linux though, and mainly Additions cross-builds).  Not much 
documentation available for it, especially as we use slightly different 
configuration scripts internally, but you might take a look at the page 
I put together on cross-building the Solaris Additions on Linux[1], at 
least for a couple of ideas.

Regards,

Michael

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/SolarisCrossCompiler
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