Please provide a PPC32 Build

[mterron]

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[BUG | ISSUE] Expected Behaviour:
FTL runs

[BUG | ISSUE] Actual Behaviour:
No binary available for CPU arch ppc as per lscpu output
Architecture: ppc
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit
Byte Order: Big Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
Model: amcc,apollo3g
BogoMIPS: 1600.00
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2d cache: unknown size
L2i cache: unknown size

[BUG | ISSUE] Steps to reproduce:
Install pi-hole on a PPC based device.

Device specifics

Hardware Type: MyBook Live
OS: Linux

[technicalpyro]

looking at what i can find regarding your hardware i am unsure it would be supported. however you can start here: https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL#how-to-compile-ftl-from-source and once DL6ER is awake (he wrote the FTL backend) he may have a better answer

[dschaper]

We'll check and see if our builder is capable of producing binaries for that platform. We use Travis to build out our binaries and it may not be possible to get something on that processor, but we will try.

[DL6ER]

I haven't had much luck trying to get a ready-to-use cross compiler. Have you tried to compile FTL from source as suggested by @technicalpyro ?

[mterron]

I don't think there is a compiler on the WD MyBook. Debian have ready to use cross compilers AFAIK, you can check on https://wiki.debian.org/CrossToolchains Also for other distributions: http://crosstool-ng.github.io/

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[mterron]

I was able to cross-compile by doing this as root on a fresh Debian Jessie install:

apt update && apt install curl git
echo 'deb http://emdebian.org/tools/debian/ jessie main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
curl http://emdebian.org/tools/debian/emdebian-toolchain-archive.key | apt-key add -
dpkg --add-architecture powerpc
apt update
apt install crossbuild-essential-powerpc
git clone https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL
cd FTL
sed -i.bak 's/^CC=gcc/CC=powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc/' Makefile
export ARCH=powerpc
make

[DL6ER]

@dschaper We have no sudo capabilities on Travis CI, do you think we can do still what @mterron is suggesting?

[mterron]

Seems using 'sudo: required' in your Travis config file will provide the sudo capabilities needed to install crosscompilers? I'm not familiar with Travis though.

Also adding this to .travis.yml should work I guess:

- env:
    - BUILD_CC="powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc"
    - BIN_NAME="pihole-FTL-powerpc-linux-gnu"
    addons:
      apt:
        packages:
        - gcc-powerpc-linux-gnu
        - binutils-powerpc-linux-gnu
        - libc6-dev-powerpc-cross

[dschaper]

We use the container based Trusty build environment, which precludes the use of sudo in the containers. I'm looking at other options to build our binaries, but that's not too high on the priority list for back end operations. We may be able to add your snippet to the matrix to build out that binary, it does look like those packages are available in Trusty's repository.