Install Valgrind on a target PowerPC machine

Question

I have the latest Valgrind source code. I want to install Valgrind on a target machine(powerpc) which has no support for building any softwares. So i will need to cross compile Valgrind on my build machine(x86) for the powerpc machine. Now my question is how to install the cross compiled Valgrind on to my target machine?

Answer 1

To use valgrind's default tool(memcheck) on PPC, files needed are:

• ./coregrind/valgrind
• ./coregrind/vgpreload_core-ppc32-linux.so
• ./memcheck/memcheck-ppc32-linux
• ./memcheck/vgpreload_memcheck-ppc32-linux.so
• ./default.supp

After cross-compilation, copy these files to the same directory and launch valgrind on target with VALGRIND_LIB set to where they are .

For example, if all files were copied into /tmp,

VALGRIND_LIB=/tmp /tmp/valgrind /PATH/TO/DEBUGGEE

will start DEBUGEE with valgrind.