[racket] Compiling Racket on Maemo 5

From: Neil Van Dyke (neil at neilvandyke.org)
Date: Tue Jul 13 12:43:29 EDT 2010

Kevin Tew wrote at 07/13/2010 12:19 PM:
> the 3m  variant still doesn't build do to more reliance on the ffi 
> during xform.  setup is also going to try to use the ffi.
>
> We have added additional dependencies on the ffi (foreign function 
> interface) and need to decide if we are going to support building 
> without it.
> My guess is that is possible but will require some engineering effort.

Can the Racket compiler/runtime be cross-compiled?

If FFI is not needed to *run* on the target architecture, then 
cross-compiling on a PC is not a big burden (and is likely faster), IMHO.

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