Crosscompilation - the lazy way. Possible?

[artwaw]

Good evening,
I recently revisited my plans to do something with raspi gathering dust in the drawer and decided to code a bit for it.

I discovered same tutorial as described here https://forum.qt.io/topic/87988/compiling-qt-on-windows-for-cross-compilation-with-raspberry-fails-project-error-cannot-run-target-compiler/2 - https://wiki.qt.io/RaspberryPi2EGLFS

As @jsulm advised in one of the posts I am able to setup Linux VM for myself but I am lazy - my everyday computer is Mac, every other system works via VMs. Is there a way to setup cross compilation for RasPi 32bit on 64bit macOS that can't even run anything 32bit? Honest question, I never touched cross compilation tasks.

If there is no such way (and I assume that is the case here) I have no problems working through the VM, it's just I am lazy.

Many thanks in advance!

[jeremy_k]

Have you looked into Yocto? It is, or at least was a Linux to Linux cross compile system/distribution/pain in the neck. I see there are blog posts about using it from macOS and Windows via docker, and something about a web interface.

https://www.yoctoproject.org/software-overview/development-environment/

The pain in the neck part of cross compilation is keeping the process from accidentally using an incompatible component from the host system.

[artwaw]

@jeremy_k Thank you, I will take a look.