Docker build for FreeBSD aarch64

[gotson]

https://github.com/MrDOS/freebsd-cross-build uses gcc and only builds for x86 and x86_64. I tried modifying that container to build for aarch64, to no avail.

https://github.com/SpectraLogic/freebsd-cross-build recently switched to using clang instead of gcc for cross-compilation. clang cannot build very early FreeBSD versions (doesn't work before 11.x), i think because of some dependencies on standard libraries.

I managed to modify https://github.com/SpectraLogic/freebsd-cross-build to build for aarch64.

It seems that building with clang does not provide the right ELF headers though, but it seems it's not important.

Comparison:

The file built in #491

aarch64/libsqlitejdbc.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, ARM aarch64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, stripped

The file built with my container:

aarch64/libsqlitejdbc.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

@unrelentingtech would you be able to confirm this works fine on a FreeBSD aarch64 system?

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Supersedes #491

[valpackett]

Can you post a binary to test?

(BTW if you'd like to test yourself, you can use EC2)

Old versions shouldn't be supported anymore, I recommend still building 11.x for amd64 for now, but aarch64 would be fine to start with 12.x.

I also have a docker thing I made a while ago https://github.com/unrelentingtech/docker-freebsd-cross haven't updated for aarch64 though.

[gotson]

Can you post a binary to test?

You can pull that PR and do a make freebsd-arm64 to build locally.

(BTW if you'd like to test yourself, you can use EC2)

Thanks, cool trick! I know nothing about freebsd though 😅

[valpackett]

I don't exactly have a permanent Linux box to run Docker on, building my own would take extra effort ;) Though I should work on updating my own docker cross build image anyway…

[gotson]

I don't exactly have a permanent Linux box to run Docker on, building my own would take extra effort ;) Though I should work on updating my own docker cross build image anyway…

I added the compiled native library in the PR :)

I guess you could pull the PR and try to run mvn test to perform a basic test on FreeBSD ARM64.

[gotson]

@unrelentingtech did you had any chance to give this a try? 🙏🏻

[valpackett]

Tests run: 307, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 2

[gotson]

@xerial this one should be good to go also 👍🏻

[xerial]

Great work! Merged

[klaus4]

could you do the same switch as here to https://github.com/SpectraLogic/freebsd-cross-build
for FreeBSD amd64 instead of #639 ?
thanks in advance
( https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257962 )
only did a quick look onto the issue and `hope, I got it right(sorry if not)

[gotson]

could you do the same switch as here to https://github.com/SpectraLogic/freebsd-cross-build
for FreeBSD amd64 instead of #639 ?
thanks in advance
( https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=257962 )
only did a quick look onto the issue and `hope, I got it right(sorry if not)

I am sorry, I don't quite understand what is the problem with this one. Could you provide more details? That bug report doesn't explain what's wrong, just provide an arbitrary solution.

CC @michael-o which answered on the ticket there and knows quite well what's going on on this project.

[klaus4]

from the stacktrace ( https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=227339) :
--...Event: 34.841 Loaded shared library /tmp/sqlite-3.34.0-c8b10b78-595a-47b8-8c97-c88cc41a3e0a-libsqlitejdbc.so ...--
so my guess is that if you would cross-compile with clang also on amd64 like here on aarch64 it would solve the issue... but O.K., let's ask e.g. @michael-o or the fbsd-ports-maintainer for a test-run with https://github.com/SpectraLogic/freebsd-cross-build...
thanks for looking into the issue !

[gotson]

from the stacktrace ( https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=227339) :
--...Event: 34.841 Loaded shared library /tmp/sqlite-3.34.0-c8b10b78-595a-47b8-8c97-c88cc41a3e0a-libsqlitejdbc.so ...--
so my guess is that if you would cross-compile with clang also on amd64 like here on aarch64 it would solve the issue... but O.K., let's ask e.g. @michael-o or the fbsd-ports-maintainer for a test-run with https://github.com/SpectraLogic/freebsd-cross-build...
thanks for looking into the issue !

in order not to pollute this already merged PR, can you create a new issue, and provide all of the necessary information, including which version of sqlite-jdbc you used? Thanks.

[michael-o]

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