Blog — Cross-compilation

Building Toolchains with Guix

March 15, 2023

In order to deploy embedded software using Guix we first need to teach Guix how to cross-compile it. Since Guix builds everything from source, this means we must teach…

New Supported Platform: powerpc64le-linux

April 12, 2021

It is a pleasure to announce that support for powerpc64le-linux (PowerISA v.2.07 and later) has now been merged to the master branch of GNU Guix! This means that…

Porting GuixSD to ARMv7

December 22, 2017

GuixSD porting to ARMv7 is a difficult topic. There are plenty of different machines, with specific hardware configurations and vendor-tuned bootloaders, and ACPI support is still experimental. For those reasons it…

State of aarch64 on Guix

July 24, 2017

Since the recent 0.13.0 release, Guix supports building software for aarch64 (64-bit ARM architecture). Here’s the current status. Currently aarch64 support in Guix is pretty good, as…

Porting Guix and GuixSD

September 7, 2015

Quite a lot has happened lately when it comes to porting Guix and GuixSD to other systems. A few weeks ago, Manolis Ragkousis announced…

Distro of the Linux-based GNU system ported to MIPS

October 28, 2013

The Guix-based distro has been ported to MIPS64 , specifically to the Loongson processors notably found in the free-software-friendly Yeeloong laptops . …

Guix gets cross-compilation support

June 26, 2013

Recently , Guix gained cross-compilation support. What this means is that existing package definitions can be reused to cross compile packages. So for…