Can we have a toolchain for the RPi? about userland

[pilfs]

Here's a simple sed if all you want to do is compile userland natively on the Pi:
sed -i 's/if (DEFINED CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE)/if (NOT DEFINED CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE)/g' makefiles/cmake/arm-linux.cmake

Now you can just build and ignore the toolchain stuff like so:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
make install

[popcornmix]

Never tried building it on the Pi, but should be trivial to create a .cmake configuration. Patches / Pull Requests welcome.

Ah! Not quite as straight forward as I first thought. You do need another .cmake config file, I copied the original one and changed the cmake compilers to the vanilla gcc and g++ ones. However this does not work, cmake document explains why here: (see: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables). So the next step is to copy the buildme script to build_on_pi and I added the settings of the cmake compiler vars onto the cmake command:

cmake -D CMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++ -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=..

I'm still coming up to speed with 'git' as I am an 'svn' user :) ... so not sure if I can send a patch yet. But this should be enough info for a wiki or similar to help others out.

[zanco]

@pilfs
Thank you ! After hours of searching your solution was the easyiest to get the userland installed on my Pi.

[dmopalmer]

Pull request #81, now in the main branch, changes the buildme script so it compiles properly on the Pi.