Hello everyone,
I recently wanted to build an Asterisk based VoIP GSM gateway using the Banana Pi R64 open source router and the Quectel EC25 modem. I built my own OpenWRT image and configured the modem so I am able to send and receive calls and messages through a terminal (e.g. minicom). I can also use Asterisk to create SIP phones and call other SIP phones with them. Now i needed to integrate the modem directly into Asterisk.
I saw an Asterisk channel driver on GitHub (https://github.com/t4rd15/asterisk-chan-quectel) for the EC25 which is a fork of the channel driver for Huaweii based USB modems.
I wanted to cross compile the channel driver for OpenWRT which I saw the creator did for the MIPS architecture but I have not been able to do it for a few days now. I followed the OpenWRT Cross Compile tutorial and I used this command to start cross compilation with autotools:
./configure --with-astversion=18.5.1 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=aarch64-openwrt-linux
The output was:
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... aarch64-openwrt-linux-gnu
checking target system type... aarch64-openwrt-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for aarch64-openwrt-linux-strip... aarch64-openwrt-linux-strip
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc... aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/matej/toolchain/asterisk-chan-quectel':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
The config.log contained:
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
It was created by chan_quectel configure 1.1, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. Invocation command line was
$ ./configure --with-astversion=18.5.1 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=aarch64-openwrt-linux
## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##
hostname = ubuntu
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 5.11.0-27-generic
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #29~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 11 15:58:17 UTC 2021
/usr/bin/uname -p = x86_64
/bin/uname -X = unknown
/bin/arch = x86_64
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown
PATH: /home/matej/.local/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/games
PATH: /usr/local/games
PATH: /snap/bin
PATH: /home/matej/toolchain/bin
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##
configure:2334: checking build system type
configure:2348: result: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2368: checking host system type
configure:2381: result: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gnu
configure:2401: checking target system type
configure:2414: result: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gnu
configure:2456: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2524: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2535: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2590: result: yes
configure:2647: checking for aarch64-openwrt-linux-strip
configure:2663: found /home/matej/toolchain/bin/aarch64-openwrt-linux-strip
configure:2674: result: aarch64-openwrt-linux-strip
configure:2739: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2778: result: /usr/bin/mkdir -p
configure:2785: checking for gawk
configure:2801: found /usr/bin/gawk
configure:2812: result: gawk
configure:2823: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2845: result: yes
configure:2874: checking whether make supports nested variables
configure:2891: result: yes
configure:3102: checking for aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc
configure:3118: found /home/matej/toolchain/bin/aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc
configure:3129: result: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc
configure:3204: checking for C compiler version
configure:3213: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc --version >&5
/home/matej/toolchain/bin/aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc: line 5: /home/matej/toolchain/bin/../../host/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory
configure:3224: $? = 127
configure:3213: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc -v >&5
/home/matej/toolchain/bin/aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc: line 5: /home/matej/toolchain/bin/../../host/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory
configure:3224: $? = 127
configure:3213: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc -V >&5
/home/matej/toolchain/bin/aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc: line 5: /home/matej/toolchain/bin/../../host/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory
configure:3224: $? = 127
configure:3213: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc -qversion >&5
/home/matej/toolchain/bin/aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc: line 5: /home/matej/toolchain/bin/../../host/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory
configure:3224: $? = 127
configure:3244: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3266: aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE conftest.c >&5
/home/matej/toolchain/bin/aarch64-openwrt-linux-gcc: line 5: /home/matej/toolchain/bin/../../host/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory
configure:3270: $? = 127
configure:3308: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "chan_quectel"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "chan_quectel"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.1"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "chan_quectel 1.1"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-quectel/issues"
| #define PACKAGE_URL "https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-quectel/"
| #define PACKAGE "chan_quectel"
| #define VERSION "1.1"
| #define ASTERISK_VERSION_NUM 180501
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:3313: error: in `/home/matej/toolchain/asterisk-chan-quectel':
configure:3315: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
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## Cache variables. ##
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am_cv_make_support_nested_variables=yes
## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
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install_sh='${SHELL} /home/matej/toolchain/asterisk-chan-quectel/install-sh'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
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## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##
/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "chan_quectel"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "chan_quectel"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.1"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "chan_quectel 1.1"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-quectel/issues"
#define PACKAGE_URL "https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-quectel/"
#define PACKAGE "chan_quectel"
#define VERSION "1.1"
#define ASTERISK_VERSION_NUM 180501
configure: exit 77
If anyone can help I'd be really thankful. This is my first time doing a larger project on Linux based systems.