Re: Cross-compiling Busybox debian package

[Clément Péron <peron.clem@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 at 23:26, Clément Péron <peron.clem@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Debian Mentors and Busybox Deb maintainers,
>
> This is my first debian package compilation :)
>
> I'm trying to cross compile the busybox deb package (ADM64 -> ARM64).
>
> After reading a bit of doc on the compilation I do the following steps:
>
> dpkg --add-architecture arm64
> apt build-dep -aarm64 -y busybox
> apt source busybox
> cd busybox-1.35.0
> export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck
> debuild --host-arch arm64 -b --no-sign
>
> You can find the complete step on my github repo:
> https://github.com/clementperon/busybox-ubnt-build/blob/main/.github/workflows/default.yml#L37-L71
>
> But I got the following errors:
> dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot find library libresolv.so.2 needed by
> debian/busybox/bin/busybox (ELF format: 'elf64-littleaarch64' abi:
> '020100b700000000'; RPATH: '')
> 2474dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot find library libc.so.6 needed by
> debian/busybox/bin/busybox (ELF format: 'elf64-littleaarch64' abi:
> '020100b700000000'; RPATH: '')
> 2475dpkg-shlibdeps: error: cannot find library ld-linux-aarch64.so.1
> needed by debian/busybox/bin/busybox (ELF format:
> 'elf64-littleaarch64' abi: '020100b700000000'; RPATH: '')
> 2476
>
> The arm64 shared libs are stored in
> '/usr/aarch64-linux-gnu/lib/libc.so.6'
> I tried to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/aarch64-linux-gnu/lib
> But it didn't help :(
>
> Do you have any idea what I'm missing ?

Thanks to felixdoerre that resolved my issue on GH.

If this can help:

I was missing an "apt install libc-dev:arm64"
and I have to change:
$> debuild --host-arch arm64 -b --no-sign
to
$> debuild -aarm64 -b --no-sign

BR,
Clement

>
> Thanks for your help,
> BR,
> Clement