Why a single cross compiling doesnt work? Error: bash: ./test1: No such file or directory

Question

I'm using my Ubuntu 14.10 x64 PC to cross compile to run my programs in my Beaglebone Black but I'm getting a strange error when I try to run the compiled program in my BBB.

The command lines bellow show how I'm doing all steps:

• PC:writing the code → compiling with arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc → transfering to BBB through sftp

  cleber@cleber:~/test1$ nano ./test1/test1.c
  
  cleber@cleber:~/test1$ more test1.c
  #include "stdio.h"
  
  int main(void) {
    printf("Hello world !\n");
    return 0;
  }
  
  cleber@cleber:~/test1$ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc test1.c -o test1
  
  cleber@cleber:~/test1$ file test1
  test1: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=ee8c02a051254b2acb7b9054e4599a495da26415, not stripped
  
  cleber@cleber:~/test1$ sftp [email protected]
  [email protected]'s password: 
  Connected to 192.168.7.2.
  sftp> put /home/cleber/test1/* /home/debian/test1
  Uploading /home/cleber/test1/test1 to /home/debian/test1/test1
  /home/cleber/test1/test1                                                                                      100% 8416     8.2KB/s   00:00    
  Uploading /home/cleber/test1/test1.c to /home/debian/test1/test1.c
  /home/cleber/test1/test1.c                                                                                    100%   81     0.1KB/s   00:00    
  sftp> exit
  

• Beaglebone / through SSH: (running the compiled code received)

  debian@beaglebone:~/test1# chmod +x test1
  
  debian@beaglebone:~/test1$ ls -la
  total 32
  drwxr-xr-x  2 debian debian 4096 Mar  2 01:13 .
  drwxr-xr-x 13 debian debian 4096 Mar  2 01:08 ..
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 debian debian 8416 Mar  2 01:11 test1
  -rw-r--r--  1 debian debian   81 Mar  2 01:11 test1.c
  
  debian@beaglebone:~/test1$ ./test1
  -bash: ./test1: No such file or directory
  

• But when I compile in the BBB it works:

  debian@beaglebone:~/test1$ gcc test1.c -o test12
  
  debiandebian@beaglebone:~/test1$ ls -la
  total 32
  drwxr-xr-x  2 debian debian 4096 Mar  2 01:30 .
  drwxr-xr-x 13 debian debian 4096 Mar  2 01:08 ..
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 debian debian 8416 Mar  2 01:11 test1
  -rw-r--r--  1 debian debian   81 Mar  2 01:11 test1.c
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 debian debian 5048 Mar  2 01:30 test12
  
  debian@beaglebone:~/test1$ ./test12
  Hello world !
  
  debian@beaglebone:~/Desktop/test1$ file test1 test12
  test1:  ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0xa0028cee2a4b255154907bcb499a59e41564a25d, not stripped
  test12: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0x6a05d95c39cc59d2d407655778dc2ef6f53f02cd, not stripped
  
  debian@beaglebone:~/Desktop/test1$ ldd test1 test12
  test1:
      not a dynamic executable
  test12:
      libc.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 (0xb6e1e000)
      /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 (0xb6f15000)
  

May this problem is caused because is used a x64 arch to cross compile a 32bits executable? I installed some libs of 32bits but I'm not sure if I did it correctly. I even have no idea if it's the correct cause of the problem.

Maybe these informations below are useful:

PC:

cleber@cleber:~/test1$ cat /etc/issue.net; uname -ar
Ubuntu 14.10
Linux cleber 3.16.0-44-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 7 02:07:39 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

BBB:

cat /etc/issue.net; uname -ar
Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone70 #1 SMP Fri Jan 23 02:15:42 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

I'm newbie with Linux and I'm stuck in this step and unfortunately i really need to resolve it quite fast :'( I hope to get some help here!

Tks in advanced!

Answer 1

Solution:

Just compile the code statically:

PC:

cleber@cleber:~/test1$ arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -static test1.c -o test1

cleber@cleber:~/test1$ sftp [email protected]
[email protected]'s password: 
Connected to 192.168.7.2.
sftp> put /home/cleber/test1/* /home/debian/test1
Uploading /home/cleber/test1/test1 to /home/debian/test1/test1
/home/cleber/test1/test1                                                                                      100% 8416     8.2KB/s   00:00    
Uploading /home/cleber/test1/test1.c to /home/debian/test1/test1.c
/home/cleber/test1/test1.c                                                                                    100%   81     0.1KB/s   00:00    
sftp> exit

BBB:

debian@beaglebone:~/test1$ ./test1
Hello world !

As you can see, the cross compiled executable test1 is static: test12 was compiled by gcc on BBB just to compare.

debian@beaglebone:~/Desktop/test1$ ldd test1 test12
test1:
    not a dynamic executable
test12:
    libc.so.6 => /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6 (0xb6e12000)
    /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 (0xb6f09000)

debian@beaglebone:~/Desktop/test1$ file test1 test12
test1:  ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0x8d34ee7f6f2798fa153dea185f77443d06b6ab61, not stripped
test12: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.26, BuildID[sha1]=0x6a05d95c39cc59d2d407655778dc2ef6f53f02cd, not stripped

Thanks all for helping!

Answer 2

I Had the exactly same issue so i did following

sudo apt-get install g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf

sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

After this i configure my compilation tools in eclipse to point to the above installed directory and complied the program

After compiling i copy the executable into beagle bone black rev c and executed there through command line and it started working :)