Deploying and running a binary executable on target

Once you have a cross compiled binary file, it needs to be installed on the target. To do so the easiest way is to use SSH. For that to work you need to know the IP address of your target.

Note

If you do not know the IP address of your target, the Raspberry Pi documentation describes how to find a new device on the network. This can be used for any target, not just Raspberry Pi

The default user on the PELUX image is root and it does not ask for a password logging in via SSH. Use scp to copy your binary to the target.

scp build/example-binary root@<ip address>:

Now that the binary file has been copied to the target it can be run there.

ssh root@<ip address>
./example-binary