Re: [autotools] gtk-doc.m4 - cross compile support

[Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

On 10/10/2018 09:18 AM, John Cupitt via gtk-doc-list wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 07:39, Fontana Nicola <ntd entidi it> wrote:
> > Il giorno mer, 10/10/2018 alle 09.20 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev ha scritto:
> > > BTW: just a thought, if you compile on demand the scanobj, then you
> > > can use the build CC/LD and it will compile, it can analyze the host
> > > format, just like any toolchain tool.
> > Yes, and you'll also need a launcher (i.e. some kind of virtualization
> > environment maybe you already have in place) to execute that binary
> > from the build machine.
> Yes, I've considered that too, but never tried to implement it.
>
> For abstract things like the class hierarchy, you could also do a
> separate native build and introspect that, but unfortunately .gir
> files are not cross-platform. They include things like struct member
> offsets, which really tie them to a specific binary.
gtkdoc does not need the gir files.
So far the approach has been to not cross compile doc builds. I know
that this causes problems if some of the API is conditionally
enabled/disabled from architectures, but this is really not simple to solve.

Stefan

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