Re: building tools during a cross-compilation

2014-01-29 Thread Pierre Phaneuf
Since the tool shares code with the main binary, distributing it separately is inconvenient. One of the platforms targeted is Windows, so having it in C++ is easiest, since a scripting language would require users to install even more tools. And there's really a pile of resource files, the point of

Re: building tools during a cross-compilation

2014-01-29 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2014-01-29 05:10 +, Pierre Phaneuf wrote: > I've just set up a Makefile.am for a package I'm working on, and it's going > pretty well, but I've hit a snag with cross-compilation... > > This package installs a binary and a resource file. That resource file is > build with a special tool that

Re: building tools during a cross-compilation

2014-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/29/2014 06:10 AM, Pierre Phaneuf wrote: I've just set up a Makefile.am for a package I'm working on, and it's going pretty well, but I've hit a snag with cross-compilation... This package installs a binary and a resource file. That resource file is build with a special tool that is build b

building tools during a cross-compilation

2014-01-29 Thread Pierre Phaneuf
I've just set up a Makefile.am for a package I'm working on, and it's going pretty well, but I've hit a snag with cross-compilation... This package installs a binary and a resource file. That resource file is build with a special tool that is build by the Makefile.am. When I cross-compile, it work