Through cross compilation, on Linux it is possible to build CoreRT for arm or arm64.
You need a Debian based host and the following packages needs to be installed:
$ sudo apt-get install qemu qemu-user-static binfmt-support debootstrap
In addition, to cross compile CoreCLR the binutils for the target are required. So for arm you need:
$ sudo apt-get install binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf
and conversely for arm64:
$ sudo apt-get install binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
The cross\build-rootfs.sh
script can be used to download the files needed for cross compilation. It will generate an Ubuntu 14.04 rootfs as this is what CoreRT targets.
Usage: build-rootfs.sh [BuildArch]
BuildArch can be: arm, arm64
The build-rootfs.sh
script must be run as root as it has to make some symlinks to the system, it will by default generate the rootfs in cross\rootfs\<BuildArch>
however this can be changed by setting the ROOTFS_DIR
environment variable.
For example, to generate an arm rootfs:
$ sudo ./cross/build-rootfs.sh arm
and if you wanted to generate the rootfs elsewhere:
$ sudo ROOTFS_DIR=~/coreclr-cross/arm ./build-rootfs.sh arm
Once the rootfs has been generated, it will be possible to cross compile CoreRT. If ROOTFS_DIR
was set when generating the rootfs, then it must also be set when running build.sh
.
So, without ROOTFS_DIR
:
$ ./build.sh arm debug verbose clean cross
And with:
$ ROOTFS_DIR=~/coreclr-cross/arm ./build.sh arm debug verbose clean cross
As usual the resulting binaries will be found in bin/Product/BuildOS.BuildArch.BuildType/
It's possible to use CoreRT for compiling under arm/armel on x86 host (or on x64 machine using rootfs). You can build Debug or Release version. For example Release means: release CoreRT/CoreCLR/CoreFX builds + CoreRT(ILC) release enabled optimizations. For better components compatibility, if you want to build Debug version, you must compile ALL projects as Debug version. Otherwise, ALL as Release version.
- Build CoreCLR for x86
sudo ./cross/build-rootfs.sh x86 xenial
./build.sh x86 debug verbose cross
- Build CoreFX
sudo ./cross/build-rootfs.sh x86 xenial
./build-native.sh -debug -buildArch=x86 -- verbose cross
./build-managed.sh -debug -verbose
- Build CoreRT for x86 and armel
sudo ./cross/build-rootfs.sh armel tizen
sudo ./cross/build-rootfs.sh x86 xenial
./build.sh armel debug verbose cross
./build.sh x86 debug verbose cross crosstarget skiptests
- Copy necessary binaries to working directory in x86 rootfs. Or in any host directory, if you have 32-bit multiarch-support on your x64 host.
# 1) Copy CoreCLR(with CoreRun) part
cp ${CORECLR}/bin/Product/Linux.x86.Debug/* ${WORKING_DIR}
# 2) Copy CoreRT part
cp ${CORERT}/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/tools/ilc.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${CORERT}/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/tools/ILCompiler.* ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${CORERT}/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/tools/System.CommandLine.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${CORERT}/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/tools/Microsoft.DiaSymReader.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp -r ${CORERT}/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/framework ${WORKING_DIR}
cp -r ${CORERT}/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/sdk ${WORKING_DIR}
# 3) Copy CoreRT x86 jitinterface with target armel version
cp ${CORERT}/bin/Linux.x86.Debug/tools/armeljitinterface.so ${WORKING_DIR}/jitinterface.so
# 4) Copy CoreFX part
# Copy native architecture dependence libs
cp ${COREFX}/bin/Linux.x86.Debug/native/* ${WORKING_DIR}
# Copy arch independence libs
# This part varies depending on the application, these dependencies for HelloWorld only
NETCORE_PATH=netcoreapp-Linux-Debug-x64
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Runtime.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Runtime.Extensions.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Collections.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Reflection.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Reflection.Metadata.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Collections.Immutable.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Console.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.IO.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Runtime.InteropServices.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Threading.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Diagnostics.Debug.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Linq.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.IO.FileSystem.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.IO.UnmanagedMemoryStream.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.IO.FileSystem.Primitives.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Runtime.Handles.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Text.Encoding.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Text.Encoding.Extensions.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Reflection.Primitives.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Collections.Concurrent.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Globalization.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Private.Xml.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Diagnostics.Tracing.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Buffers.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
cp ${COREFX}/bin/runtime/${NETCORE_PATH}/System.Memory.dll ${WORKING_DIR}
- Rename RyuJIT compiler library
# Use cross-compiler library as default for ILC
# libclrjit.so is used by the CoreCLR that compiler runs on,
# and libclrjitilc.so is used for the actual compilation.
cp ${WORKING_DIR}/libarmelnonjit.so ${WORKING_DIR}/libclrjitilc.so
-
Build ObjectWriter library. You have to compile it on x86 chroot.
-
And to execute use:
# Hello.ilc.rsp is in CoreRT armel build. It's necessary to edit the paths on the relatively our working directory.
./corerun ilc.dll --codegenopt "AltJitNgen=*" --verbose @Hello.ilc.rsp
# Any other options to RyuJIT could be passed via --codegenopt argument, e.g.:
# ./corerun ilc.dll --codegenopt "AltJitNgen=*" --codegenopt "NgenDisasm=*" --verbose @Hello.ilc.rsp
# For linking
clang -target arm-linux-gnueabi --sysroot=corert/cross/rootfs/armel -Bcorert/cross/rootfs/armel/usr/lib/gcc/armv7l-tizen-linux-gnueabi/6.2.1 -Lcorert/cross/rootfs/armel/usr/lib/gcc/armv7l-tizen-linux-gnueabi/6.2.1 Hello.o -o Hello corert/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/sdk/libbootstrapper.a corert/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/sdk/libRuntime.a corert/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/sdk/libSystem.Private.CoreLib.Native.a corert/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/framework/System.Native.a corert/bin/Linux.armel.Debug/framework/System.Globalization.Native.a -g -Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN' -pthread -lstdc++ -ldl -lm -luuid -lrt -fPIC