[Work Notes] ncftp-3.2.1 Cross-Compiling

ncftp is an FTP client. One of our projects needed FTP functionality, so I cross-compiled it for an ARM target.

Build Steps

Step 1: Generate the Makefile. If you need curses support, add the relevant library — but for our project it’s not needed:

./configure --disable-ccdv --without-curses --without-ncurse

Step 2: Edit the Makefile — update CC and STRIP as follows:

CROSS_COMPILE=arm-unknown-linux-gnu-
CC=${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc
STRIP=${CROSS_COMPILE}strip

Step 3: Make it!

make