While not necessarily being much faster for compiling, I found you can build raspbian packages using the debian package stuff by using qemu on another computer. If you want to build raspbian packages I found that on my raspberrypi (a model B with 512MB of RAM) that it ran out of memory (I believe it happened in the earlier stages where it was getting the various source and either extracting or packing it into a source archive) and to use swap files is very slow and probably not good for the SD card anyway, qemu does overcome these limits.

I know that cross compiling might be faster but I never found enough information out there to help me get such a system up and running and I was unsure whether this would lead to a system where I could compile a raspbian package using the debian stuff of freeswitch. Qemu was relatively simple to set up (I think I mainly used a wiki page from the raspberrypi section of elinux.org).

Michael Whapples

On 27/03/2013 00:22, Raymond Chandler wrote:

On 13-03-26 05:52 AM, Peter P GMX wrote:

Freeswitch compiled native from GIT (this really takes a while)

For what it's worth, I've been playing with using ccache and distcc on a beefier box to cross-compile freeswitch from my raspi. I haven't done verifiable benchmarks, but it does seem to cut the compile time down considerably when you offload the compiling. Raspi seems to be gaining enough traction that it might be worthwhile to add a wiki page or two devoted to them with little tips and tricks to make life easier.

-Ray