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pabs3 on March 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do you really want Linux phones

GTK apps are definitely cross-compilable, here is a random example from the Debian cross-compile testing service:

http://crossqa.debian.net/src/xdemorse

NewJazz on March 25, 2021 [–]

Sure, but you must have taken special care to ensure that the gobject introspection tools are run using qemu. Or maybe this does not use GIR at all because it is plain C (which I would not recommend for new apps, and neither does GNOME AIUI).

pabs3 on March 25, 2021 | [–]

Looks like it doesn't use GIR indeed.

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