[NotInControl]

Originally Posted by marshall

Aside from speed, what's the concern with compiling directly on the Jetson? Just curious.

We've got our students writing code and compiling on them so that's why I am asking. It just made sense for us given the number of students and limited workstations. It was easier for us to just use the boards.

No real concern other than what works for us. We typically have 1 or 2 development boards and many desktops/laptops. We need to be able to decouple ourselves from the embedded device so that we can be more productive.

I understand everyone can SSH into the board, and have a different session, but that is slow, and it makes it hard for us because our development boards typically stay at the school (where we don't have remote access through schools firewall). With cross-compiler tools set up I can give my students homework where they can write code at home, build it, push to github, and then we can test it on the board later - saves us a lot more time.

We only had 2 beaglebone this past season, a team owned and a mentor owned so it was really important for us to be able to develop off the target. Right now we only have one jetson, which is mentor owned. If we get things rolling on this, I will probably just donate it to my team, but it still means having one dev board and multiple programmers.

Plus, I haven't come across any real clear tutorials yet working with the jetson in a cross-compiled environment, so I decided to tackle the challenge. Not sure how smart this was just yet lol.