Simon McVittie

github profile: https://github.com/smcv

gitlab profile: https://salsa.debian.org/smcv

Senior Software Engineer at Collabora Ltd., Debian Developer participating in various teams (GNOME, games, freedesktop.org, Utopia, Python), Technical Committee member 2018-2023.

Accepted Talks:

Cross-compiling GObject-Introspection

GNOME’s GObject-Introspection framework provides nice language bindings for many libraries and languages, but this time last year, it wasn’t possible to cross-compile it on Debian. As a result of work started at last year’s mini-Debconf, now it is! This talk looks at why this wasn’t straightforward, how we got here, and what package maintainers can do to improve our ability to cross-compile and bootstrap new architectures.