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authorRussell Yanofsky <russ@yanofsky.org>2019-08-06 17:29:21 -0400
committerfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2019-08-23 14:18:16 +0800
commitbe27161ee4bb7cb63346f1e79fc36ce33103a635 (patch)
tree3e2004cc5236fbbf9cdaebd62c3086046566e741 /depends
parent43eaf76e02679408ee43489b3961f845a9eb3f7f (diff)
Clarify need to specify --prefix with depends
If not cross compiling, it might actually be nice for it to be picked up automatically. But for now clarify the readme to try to minimize confusion. https://github.com/chaincodelabs/libmultiprocess/issues/4#issuecomment-515619707 https://github.com/chaincodelabs/libmultiprocess/issues/5#issuecomment-518826298
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@@ -12,14 +12,18 @@ For example:
make HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 -j4
-A prefix will be generated that's suitable for plugging into Bitcoin's
-configure. In the above example, a dir named x86_64-w64-mingw32 will be
+**Bitcoin's configure script by default will ignore the depends output.** In
+order for it to pick up libraries, tools, and settings from the depends build,
+you must point it at the appropriate `--prefix` directory generated by the
+build. In the above example, a prefix dir named x86_64-w64-mingw32 will be
created. To use it for Bitcoin:
./configure --prefix=`pwd`/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32
Common `host-platform-triplets` for cross compilation are:
+- `i686-pc-linux-gnu` for Linux 32 bit
+- `x86_64-pc-linux-gnu` for x86 Linux
- `x86_64-w64-mingw32` for Win64
- `x86_64-apple-darwin14` for macOS
- `arm-linux-gnueabihf` for Linux ARM 32 bit