BeagleBone - Cross Compile c++ on Windows

RE: BeagleBone - Cross Compile c++ on Windows

Jan Cumps — Sat, 18 May 2019 17:21:00 GMT

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RE: BeagleBone - Cross Compile c++ on Windows

Jan Cumps — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 22:43:24 GMT

BeagleBone XWindow applications showing on my windows desktop via a remote XWindows session.

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I used Cygwin as the xwindows client on my laptop.

run Cygwin's XWin Server

open an xterm in the startx icon on the taskbar

secure shell into the BB

ssh -XY jancumps@192.168.1.5

Then enter password, and fire up some apps:

xlogo &

xcalc &

xterm &

xclock &

xmessage "Hello, world!" &

xedit &

The console you see in the middle is the one I used to shell into the BB.

The 3 other windows are the logo, calc and terminal I executed on the BB that display on my PC.

RE: BeagleBone - Cross Compile c++ on Windows

Jan Cumps — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 08:54:25 GMT

I've added comments on the GCC toolchain that has the best compatibility with the current latest BB Debian image.

The version of the toolchain that gave me the best compatibility with the Debian image is
gcc-linaro-4.9-2015.05-1-rc1-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabihf.
It can be downloaded from here: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2015.05-1-rc1/arm-linux-gnueabihf/gcc-linaro-4.9-2015.05-1…

I ran into issues with my cross-compiler being a newer version than the current support on the BB Debian side.

And at the same time, I wanted to stay as close to that image as possible, without the need to install any package on the BB side to make this work.

Adding the 4.9.3 toolchain does the trick. And it runs perfectly together with the 5.3.1 - no conflicts

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RE: BeagleBone - Cross Compile c++ on Windows

Jan Cumps — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:56:01 GMT

I've added a video with the steps. Had to uninstall all software to shoot it.

I had to do too many trials and errors to be able to video this exercise live.

(For each step you see in the blog above, I have taken 5 or 6 wrong decisions)