Cross-compiling Install the cross compilers from Emdebian: echo "deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ testing main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install gcc-4.3-arm-linux-gnueabi Configure "like normal": CC='arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc' \ '/home/derick/dev/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/configure' \ '--disable-all' \ '--prefix=/home/derick/install/kindle/cross/target' \ '--enable-sockets' \ '--enable-pcntl' \ '--with-pcre-regex' make Edit the last line, remove everything until %arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc% Add %-static% after %-fvisibility=hidden% Replace every %.lo% with %.o% Run %arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -export-dynamic -g -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -static ext/date/php_date.o% .... %-lcrypt -o sapi/cli/php%