Avoiding cross-compilation

[bogdanbeju]

Hi everyone,

I am working with the i.mx53 Quick Start Board. To speed up development, I would like to be able to compile directly on the board, instead of cross-compiling on a computer then transferring the program.

On the provided Ubuntu image, generic programs compile and work, but the libraries for using the hardware (such as SPI) don't seem to be installed. Any idea where to find them?

I have also found advice about trying Linaro, but it seems all links to their hardware packages for i.mx53 are now dead.

[b36401]

You can find some libraries on host machine in /opt/freescale/pkgs/imx-lib-*.tar.gz                      
I hope it is what you need.

[bogdanbeju]

I did check out imx-lib-*. Unfortunately it only contains some specialized libraries, such as for using the VPU. The parts for using GPIO for example are not there.