# Cross Compiling

SurfaceRT or RT2 is ARM7 (ARM32 / armhf )\
Cross compiling is fairly simple (I use docker).

### cross compiler quick setup (platform agnostic mac/linux/windows)

Linux: apt install docker \
Mac:  brew install docker; brew cask install docker;\
Windows (install docker-ce from docker.com?)\
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`docker run --rm dockcross/linux-armv7:latest > dockcross-linux-armv7-latest`\
`chmod +x dockcross-linux-armv7-latest`\
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To use:

`./dockcross-linux-armv7 bash -c make`\ <br>

## Alternate option (linux debian based - amend for other package managers as needed)

`#install req's for cross compiling`\
`apt install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf bison autoconf autopoint flex build-essential` \
&#x20;\
`#install random libraries that grub2 seemed to need`\
`apt install liblzma5 libarchive-dev freetype2-demos libfreetype-dev fonts-dejavu grub-theme-starfield ttf-dejavu-core libdevmapper-dev libfuse-dev ttf-unifont unifont liblzma-dev`\
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`#install EDK2 bits`\
`apt install acpica-tools uuid-dev nasm python-distutils`<br>