OpenEmbedded is a flavour of Linux used on some embedded computers. You need tocross-compile for the platform, having built the compiler.These notes are very old !

If you do not want to compile these yourselves, here are packaged binariesfor OpenEmbedded distributions. These were built using a Gumstix runningthe Ångström distro and installvips &nip2 7.20.7 (latest versionat the time of writing) using the/usr prefix. These are quite minimaland do not link against many of the optional libraries likeFFTW.

vips_7.20.7_arm.ipk

nip2_7.20.7_arm.ipk

These were generated following the instructions outlined here:http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BuildingIpkgs?action=highlight&value=BuildingIpkgs

Having setup the OE environment configure VIPS src (I use an alias to remindme its:

/usr/src/oe/tmp/deploy/glibc/addons/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-angstrom-gumstix-custom-connex-devshell

As JPEG and TIFF libraries are pretty much essential they needbuilding/cross-compiling locally first then pointing to in the config line

--host option to tell it to use crosscompiler, prefix to point to your special area, stop it using liboil (tricky)

./configure --host=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/home/km/armvips --without-liboil

The following were the packages that I had to install to get the buildenvironment setup on the Gumstix.

opkg install flexopkg install bisonopkg install pkgconfig opkg install gtk+-devopkg install libxml2-devopkg install libgthread-2.0-0opkg install pango-devopkg install libpangomm-1.4-dev opkg install libpng opkg install libexif-devopkg install liboil-devopkg install pkgconfigopkg install m4-dev opkg install gettext-devopkg install g++-symlinksopkg install bison-devopkg install cpp-symlinksopkg install g++-symlinks

Then the following configure command was used

./configure --prefix=/usr

Somehow thebison installed throughopkg (2.3-r1.5) would not workcorrectly, so I compiled and installed the newest version ofbison (2.4).

Furthermore, vips would not compile unless I commented outim_icc_exportfromim_icc_transform.c. This is probably not a final solution as itcould lead to unwanted behavior...