Revision as of 11:44, 30 April 2014

Prerequisites

GLib

zlib

zlib is a compression library and a prerequisite for building GLib.

Download, cross compile and install the zlib compression libraries. Configure doesn't accept the --host parameter (reports unknown option), so you need to hack the makefile.

wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
tar -xzf zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.8/
./configure --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi 

Edit the makefile and prefix the build tools with arm-linux-gnueabi-.

CC=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
LDSHARED=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libz.so.1,--version-script,zlib.map
CPP=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -E
AR=arm-linux-gnueabi-ar
RANLIB=arm-linux-gnueabi-ranlib

Make and install:

make
make install

libffi

libffi is the Portable Foreign Function Interface Library and is a prerequisite for building GLib. It is an interface that allows code written in one language to call code written in another language.

Download, build and install:

wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.13.tar.gz
tar -xzf libffi-3.0.13.tar.gz
cd libffi-3.0.13/
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi  
make
make install

GLib

GLib is part of the GTK+ Project

GLib requires zlib, libffi and glibc >= 2.18 to successfully build. If you are building on ubuntu 14.04, the arm-linux-gnueabi should come installed with glibc 2.19 hence we don't rebuild it.

GLib requires the glib-genmarshal tool installed on your build system otherwise the following error is likey to result:

checking for glib-genmarshal... no
configure: error: Could not find a glib-genmarshal in your PATH

An easy way to resolve this is to install libglib2.0-dev:

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

To build Glib, download, build and install:

wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.40/glib-2.40.0.tar.xz
tar -xJf glib-2.40.0.tar.xz
cd glib-2.40.0
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/pkgconfig  glib_cv_stack_grows=no glib_cv_uscore=yes ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r=yes ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r=yes 
make
make install

D-Bus

The Expat XML Parser

Expat is an XML parser library written in C and is the only required dependency for the D-Bus daemon.

Download, build and install:

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat/2.1.0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf expat-2.1.0.tar.gz 
cd expat-2.1.0/
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi
make
make install

D-Bus

D-Bus is a message bus system. It requires the expat library to successfully build otherwise the following error may result:

checking for XML_ParserCreate_MM in -lexpat... no
configure: error: Explicitly requested expat but expat not found

Download, build and install:

wget http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.8.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf dbus-1.8.0.tar.gz
cd dbus-1.8.0/
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi
make
make install

libical

libical provides a library for the iCal standard. It is a prerequisite of BlueZ.

libical requires cmake and g++ cross compilers to be installed:

sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install g++-arm-linux-gnueabi

Download, build and install the library:

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freeassociation/libical-1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf libical-1.0.tar.gz
cd libical-1.0/
export CC=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
export CXX=arm-linux-gnueabi-g++
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi
make
make install

Readline

Readline references functions in ncurses. If ncurses is not linked, the following errors are likely to result when building BlueZ:

/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'

First we must build ncurses and then link it to Readline using SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses.

ncurses

Download, build and install the ncurses library:

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
tar -xzf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
cd ncurses-5.9
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi CXX="arm-linux-gnueabi-g++"
make
make install

Readline

Download, build and install the readline library:

wget ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.3.tar.gz
tar -xzf readline-6.3.tar.gz
cd readline-6.3/
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi bash_cv_wcwidth_broken=yes
make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses
make install

The bash_cv_wcwidth_broken=yes parameter avoids the following error when cross-compiling:

checking for wcwidth broken with unicode combining characters... 
configure: error: in `/.../readline-6.3':
configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling

BlueZ

BlueZ is the official Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux and include tools such as hciattach, hciconfig, hcitool and rfcomm.

BlueZ 5.18 requires GLib >= 2.28, D-Bus >= 1.6 and libudev >= 143. When these prerequisites are meet, you can download, build and install BlueZ using:

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-5.18.tar.xz
tar -xJf bluez-5.18.tar.xz
cd bluez-5.18
./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix= PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/pkgconfig --disable-systemd --disable-udev --disable-cups --disable-obex 
make
make install DESTDIR=/home/export/rootfs