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Before pi & co, cross compiling was a black art. You often needed to build your own toolchain and the target environment were often not standardized either so y
by alpanka 5y ago
Before pi & co, cross compiling was a black art. You often needed to build your own toolchain and the target environment were often not standardized either so you would need different compilers for each target.
Fast forward to today, you can apt-get cross-compilers and build tools.
- Nursie 5y agoWhile it was a hassle, you could use pre-built cross compilers on debian before the Pi came along, as I was in 2010/11. Multi-arch helped a lot when it was introduced too.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoWas that so hard? Arduino was easy.