Alien OS (Linux) cross build support

[Tim Kientzle]

> On Nov 29, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I looked at the current code, the handbook and whatever documentation I
> could find on the topic, and my conclusion was that alien OS cross building
> of FreeBSD is NOT supported. Is this correct? Do I need to have a FreeBSD
> host to cross build for ARM or ARM64? Can I at least build part of the
> system on a non-FreeBSD host?

I think that with VM solutions (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc) being so
common and easy to use, there hasn’t been much demand for it.

For starters, I suggest:

* Download and install VirtualBox or some other VM system
   https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

* Install FreeBSD/amd64 onto it

* Build there.


Cheers,

Tim

P.S.  FreeBSD has prebuilt images for many boards already.
So you could download a prebuilt ARM or ARM64 image, then use
that to build a custom image for the same or different hardware.