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kovidgoyal · 10-15-2016, 12:27 AM

Interesting. Is there some reason you chose to do the build on the Raspberry Pi instead of cross-compiling? I suppose setting up the cross compile environment is a fairly painful initial effort.

There are build scripts for automatically building calibre and all its dependencies including python and Qt here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/build-calibre

Someday I should get around to adding linux ARM builds to those scripts. All that's needed is creating a docker image setup for cross-compiling and adjusting a few of the build scripts as appropraite for cross compiling.

10-15-2016, 12:27 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,377 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Interesting. Is there some reason you chose to do the build on the Raspberry Pi instead of cross-compiling? I suppose setting up the cross compile environment is a fairly painful initial effort. There are build scripts for automatically building calibre and all its dependencies including python and Qt here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/build-calibre Someday I should get around to adding linux ARM builds to those scripts. All that's needed is creating a docker image setup for cross-compiling and adjusting a few of the build scripts as appropraite for cross compiling.