Hello, All!
I'm a rank amateur/beginner/dilettante/newbie as regards cross compiling. Though I've helped out with bug testing and feature suggestions for some applications.
A few years back, twobob exhorted me to try. He gave his example - how he learnt stuff, tried and succeeded. Well, It was inspiring, but I was too lazy to do anything further.
Now, there is a fairly stable open source chess problem solving program called
Popeye (
https://github.com/thomas-maeder/popeye). It's a CLI program.
I managed to compile this and run it on my netbook running Ubuntu 14.04. Earlier, I was using the pre-compiled windows .EXEs.
So, you can guess where I'm leading this up to! I would very much like to compile and get it running on my Kindles. I wasn't able to persuade anybody to do it for me, so looks like I've to jump into the pool after all!
To start off, I need one help from you experts: Which cross compiling tool chain should I first install on Ubuntu? I'm confused between "armel", "armeabi", "armhf", etc. I read somewhere here that Kindles are armel.
Obviously, I'll update my progress and hopefully upload/link the finished Kindle executable here when I've succeeded!
Thank you, in advance!