[cups.general] Problem with cross-compiling CUPS for ARMprocessor

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Jul 13 11:05:17 PDT 2012


Not that I am aware of.  Some network printers do accept JPEG via IPP (pretty much all HP ePrint printers, for example), and you can build the CUPS client stuff (libcups, ipptool) via cross compilation.

On Jul 13, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Tom Morrison wrote:

> Is there some type of alternative to the cups infrastructure for an
> embedded linux board in order to print a basic JPEG image to a network
> printer?
> 
> 
>> The CUPS build system currently does not support cross compilation, sorry...
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jul 12, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Tom Morrison <tom.morrison at smith-nephew.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am trying to configure and cross compile for the ARM with CUPS 1.5.3.
>>> 
>>> I have defined the CC/CXX/RANLIB/AR - and I try to compile, but it tries to
>>> compile and execute on the host two programs:
>>> 
>>>  Genstrings
>>>  ManToHTML
>>> 
>>> which obviously are cross-compiled for the ARM?
>>> 
>>> Here is whats in my Makedefs
>>> 
>>> 
> <snip makedefs>
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