benfogle
Should I build openssl and zlib too?
Is it ok to use the target and host provided openssl and zlib or is it known to cause problems? Also is there an IRC or some other community?
Hi all a bit of an answer for the first q linking dynamically to host ssl is known to cause troubles at least on android and other Linux based os without proper use of library semantic versioning in the library loader , eg android has no numbering at all ... you will have missing symbols anytime
I join for the second with @meow464 since I know of some communities built more around - packaging - cross compiled extensions like "Python-for-android" , "Beeware", "PyOdide" and plenty of personnal attempts including my own but i don't think there's any around the root cause of the problem (setuptools / pip / insufficient multiarch specification ) which crossenv try to wrap/fix ( i don't know it enough to say). Would it be usefull to start discussion ( ie start addressing and upstreaming real solutions ... ) if there isn't a joint effort already ?
I wouldn't expect it to cause problems (though as @pmp-p said, dynamic linking can be tricky on some systems). For something like Yocto or Buildroot-based distributions, using the target provided openssl or zlib would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
For the second question, I haven't set up any sort of IRC. I did raise some of the underlying issues on discuss.pythong.org, though I admittedly didn't follow through very well. (Thank you for reminding me to bring that up again.)
about IRC i've asked in #pypa on libera irc ( https://www.pypa.io/en/latest/ ). If it would be ok to invade with cross compiling / PEP517 draftings. A priori it would be OK since it's low traffic, though i did not mention it could involve unsupported platforms i think it would be a better place for experimentation than the official forums.