Julia has been compiled on several ARMv7 / Cortex A15 Samsung Chromebooks running Ubuntu Linux under Crouton. This is a work in progress - several tests are known to fail, and backtraces are not available.
In addition to the standard build-essentials toolchain the following
libraries must be installed to build on ARM. On Debian/Ubuntu, use the
following command:
sudo apt-get install libblas3gf liblapack3gf libfftw3-dev libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev libblas-dev liblapack-dev cmake gcc-4.7 g++-4.7 gfortran libgfortran3
Please start from the standard build instructions, in particular the Linux notes.
Next, create a file in the julia top-level directory called
Make.user with the following contents:
include $(JULIAHOME)/Make.arm
Then proceed to build as described in the primary README. Just typing
make -j 4 at this stage should build julia.
If you do not have an Ubuntu chroot running on your Chromebook using Crouton, you can do so by following these tutorials.
- This is the list of known issues on ARM: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/labels/arm
- If you run in to issues building LLVM, see these notes: http://llvm.org/docs/HowToBuildOnARM.html