33.1 Introduction

We assume that the host- and build-system are not the same, and that there exists a C cross-compiler CC running on the build system producing executables for the host system.

In order to execute programs on the host, it is however not sufficient to simply compile Bigloo-produced programs with this compiler. Indeed, these programs depend on the Bigloo-library which thus has to exist on the host-platform.

Building a cross-compilation environment is done in two phases:

• Build a Bigloo for the build-platform. Usually this is a given.
• Build the Bigloo library for the host-platform. At the same time one might want to build the Bigloo-executable (for the host-platform) too, but this is not a requirement.

Programs can then be cross-compiled simply by telling Bigloo to use the host-library.

Note: if the cross-compiled executable uses shared libraries, then Bigloo’s cross-compiled libraries have to be copied to the host platform. Static executables are self-contained and can be run without modification on the host.

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