Cross compiling with waf

A template for cross compilation.

This example targets the ARM-based nrf52832 but can easily be modified to support other targets.

Prerequisites

• python
• arm-none-eabi

Usage

$ ./waf configure
Setting top to                           : /home/anders/repo/crosswaf
Setting out to                           : /home/anders/repo/crosswaf/build
Checking for program 'arm-none-eabi-gcc' : /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc
Checking for program 'arm-none-eabi-ar'  : /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-ar
Checking for program 'arm-none-eabi-gcc' : /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc
Checking for program 'arm-none-eabi-objcopy' : /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-objcopy
Checking for program 'arm-none-eabi-gcc'     : /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc
Checking for program 'arm-none-eabi-g++'     : /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-g++
Checking for program 'arm-none-eabi-c++'     : /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-c++
'configure' finished successfully (0.048s)
$ ./waf
Waf: Entering directory `/home/anders/repo/crosswaf/build'
[1/5] Compiling thirdparty/cmsis/system_nrf52.c
[2/5] Compiling thirdparty/cmsis/gcc_startup_nrf52.S
[3/5] Compiling src/main.c
[4/5] Linking build/main.elf
[5/5] Compiling build/main.elf
Waf: Leaving directory `/home/anders/repo/crosswaf/build'
'build' finished successfully (0.170s)