[libhid-discuss] Cross-compiling libhid for the ARM

[Sarah Mount]

2009/1/27 Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc>:
> On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Sarah Mount wrote:

<snip>

>> Also, I'm rather confused by where shared libraries are kept. I can't
>> find the file _hid.so.0.0.0 anywhere other than
>> libhid-0.2.15+20060325/debian/libhid0/usr/lib/ where it is compiled as
>> an Intel binary. As far as I can tell running ./configure && make on
>> the source does not create a new .so file. Is this correct?
>
> It might be in src/.libs. It really depends on the way your
> cross-compilation environment works. Something may be forcing it to not
> build shared objects.
>

Thanks for this. It was in .../swig/.libs in the end! We got
everything working in the end, but not without an amount of dubious
patching. I'll come back to this when time is on my side as I'm sure
an IPKG of libhid would be useful to a number of projects.

Regards,

Sarah
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