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cross-compilation

Building a program on one kind of computer to run on another, such as on a laptop for an ESP32.

Cross-compilation compiles and links code for a target architecture different from the build host, using a target-specific standard library and linker configuration.

Examples

  • Running cargo build on a laptop with [build] target = "riscv32imac-unknown-none-elf" in .cargo/config.toml produces firmware for the ESP32-C6, not the laptop.

  • The laptop is the host and the ESP32-C6 is the target; the binary can't run on the machine that built it.

See also

target triple linker script Xtensa
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