Configure Python — Cross Compiling Options
Cross compiling, also known as cross building, can be used to build Python for another CPU architecture or platform.
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Cross compiling, also known as cross building, can be used to build Python for another CPU architecture or platform. Cross compiling requires a Python interpreter for the build platform. The version of the build Python must match the version of the cross compiled host Python.
configure for building on BUILD, usually guessed by config.guess.
cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST (target platform)
path to build python binary for cross compiling
An environment variable that points to a file with configure overrides.
Program to run CPython for the host platform for cross-compilation.
CONFIG_SITE=config.site-aarch64 ../configure \ --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu \ --host=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu \ --with-build-python=../x86_64/python
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