[CMake] Adding cross-compiler support to CMake ...

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Michael Casadevall wrote:
>
> I am interested in any support or ideas before I attempt to take this 
> project on.

I haven't a clue about what is needed for cross-compiling.  But I will 
mention there are rumblings in Chicken Scheme land about the importance 
of cross-compiling.  The perceived need for cross-compiling stands in 
the way of getting some people to ditch the GNU Automake build in favor 
of the CMake build.  In the future I'd like to be able to tell such 
people that CMake has something to say about cross-compiling.  As a 
stopgap, I've offered to package up generated Chicken .c files so that 
they're all one easily accessible place, and possibly template a sample 
Makefile, with the idea that people will provide their own build systems 
for embedded systems.  Chicken is receiving embedded systems interest 
because it does talk well to C, and because Scheme is a small language 
very suitable for embedding. 


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every