# No cross-compiling instructions on INSTALL

1 messages from 2021-03-13 to 2021-03-13. Participants: Bagas Sanjaya.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/55304

## Bagas Sanjaya, 2021-03-13 13:41

Subject: No cross-compiling instructions on INSTALL
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Hello,

I'm just skimming through INSTALL, and I didn't find any mention to
cross-compiling Git. I think it would be nice to add such instructions to
INSTALL, or to separate INSTALL_CROSS.

The idea of cross-compiling is to compile Git targeting different architecture
and/or OS than build machine (for example, compiling for ARM on x86(_64).

Note that for cross-compiling we need a cross-compiler targeting the desired
target, and for binary compatibility with rest of target system, we need
versions of compiler, libc, and binutils match the ones on the target.

Thanks.
  
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