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jhench · 12-13-2008, 07:09 AM

Hi guys,

I am coming from a slightly different, yet similar low power ARM platform, namely NAS devices like the LaCie EDmini which I am using as my multi-purpose server. Since there is a big community (nas-central.org) community around these devices, and there has been a native toolchain to compile on the devices themselves for quite a time. Storage space on the root file system is not that much of an issue on gigabyte-NAS drives, I would say that's the main difference between them and the iLiad. Otherwise, most of today's NAS machines are based on an ARM CPU and 64 MB of RAM, just like our iLiad.

Since I have been compiling all software I needed directly on the NAS (e.g. over night

due to the slow CPU) I am wondering if this was an option for the iLiad as well. Does anyone of you know how I could arrange it to put e.g. antarctica's native toolchain on the iLiad to get a compiler on the iLiad? I think it should be possible, but I just want to make sure that this would not break the whole system due to built-in software components that might get changed. It should also be stored on the CF card as the toolchain (maybe even a minimalistic one) would not really fit on the root file system.

Is there anyone out there who has already compiled things ON the iliad directly? It would be really nice if one could compile a bit in the background while reading

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12-13-2008, 07:09 AM	#29
jhench Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: irex iliad (black)	really native toolchain? Hi guys, I am coming from a slightly different, yet similar low power ARM platform, namely NAS devices like the LaCie EDmini which I am using as my multi-purpose server. Since there is a big community (nas-central.org) community around these devices, and there has been a native toolchain to compile on the devices themselves for quite a time. Storage space on the root file system is not that much of an issue on gigabyte-NAS drives, I would say that's the main difference between them and the iLiad. Otherwise, most of today's NAS machines are based on an ARM CPU and 64 MB of RAM, just like our iLiad. Since I have been compiling all software I needed directly on the NAS (e.g. over night due to the slow CPU) I am wondering if this was an option for the iLiad as well. Does anyone of you know how I could arrange it to put e.g. antarctica's native toolchain on the iLiad to get a compiler on the iLiad? I think it should be possible, but I just want to make sure that this would not break the whole system due to built-in software components that might get changed. It should also be stored on the CF card as the toolchain (maybe even a minimalistic one) would not really fit on the root file system. Is there anyone out there who has already compiled things ON the iliad directly? It would be really nice if one could compile a bit in the background while reading .