Re: [mosquitto-dev] Reg Mosquitto MQTT broker for ARM Linux

[Richard Ash <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:38:13 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Murali Krishna via mosquitto-dev <mosquitto-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I am new to Mosquitto MQTT application.
> > I tried downloading the Mosquitto 2.0.12 sources from github and
> > compiling the broker for ARM Target from Ubuntu host VM. But I was
> > not successful getting compilation erros.
> >
> > Please let us know the link to download  release version of
> > Mosquitto MQTT broker application for ARM ( arch: armv7l ). I want
> > to cross compile the Moqquitto broker application from Ubuntu host
> > machine.  
> 
> There is simply a source archive.
> 
> I have built 2.0.12 for NetBSD 9, cpu type "earmv7hf", which is
> probably the same as your CPU type.  My hardware is a RPI3 and
> mosquitto works fine.
> 
> My advice is:
> 
>   First validate your crossbuild environment/setup.  If you can build
> 10 other random programs and mosquitto fails, that's interesting.  If
>   other things fail, the problem seems likely not in mosquitto.

As a data point, buildroot (https://buildroot.org/) has no problems
cross-compiling mosquitto for arm targets. This may be an easier route
to a real-world result than trying to cross-compile individual
packages by hand.

Richard