I use Prompt for interactive login and the file-xfer capabilities of Textastic over SSH.
Vic that is an amazing discovery. Thank you so much. Someone has just done a huge amount of work there. I was simply looking for any AAarch64 *nix that has a shell and which can run gcc (and the rest of the gcc collection). But this is amazing.
I would like all you guys to liaise together if you would.
So these guys have arranged this complex load of trickery so that standard unrecompiled raspbian 32-bit binaries will run.
I don’t know about it but perhaps if one builds a 64-bit o/s and finds there’s not so much stuff to run in it then life is sad. But don’t you then just get the sources snd recompile them then. And find the bugs in porting. Maybe the raspbian shell and apps don’t port, not without getting into a world of bug fixing.
Perhaps someone will enlighten me.
Vic if you have the time could you do me a favour. Could you see if there is an AArch64 build of GCC or even better GDC (the D language -
https://dlang.org ) I can do this myself once I get hold of the system I suppose.
Another general question. Is there a GCC cross-compiler for x86-64 target AAarch64 - ie something that can produce AArch64 object files? I just wondered, because it might be massively faster doing huge builds on an x86 box. But I don’t have one anymore so the question is only if academic interest but might help someone else. I suppose I could get a fast x86 box from somewhere.