From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmBBo-0001M5-Cj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:59:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DmBBe-0001Ib-W9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:59:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmBBe-0001Dj-CP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:59:10 -0400 Received: from [64.233.170.202] (helo=rproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DmB4h-0004fP-69 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:51:59 -0400 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so884742rng for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <76bfb9d205062506489b3b094@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:48:05 -0400 From: Garth Dahlstrom In-Reply-To: <42bd5623.1415610b.4708.ffff8f5aSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42bd5623.1415610b.4708.ffff8f5aSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.gmail.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Build environment image Reply-To: Garth Dahlstrom , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:30:40 +0100, Ronald wrote: > the win32 installers on FreeOSZoo are build on a linux box :) I recently finished building an QEMU image based build environment for compiling OpenEmbedded (OpenZaurus, NLUS2, etc)... In my case it cross-compiles arm binaries on the x86 QEMU image. Overall I think a Linux image cross compiling is the way to go for easy of distribution. Here are my suggestions: - Compiling inside QEMU is slow, but ought to be fast enough for something as small as QEMU (in OE's case you have to compile ~1.2 GB of source which takes ~1.5 days on an AMD64/Win32 host) - Use a Debian text-only installation; it needs less then 600MB, zips to ~150MB and is easy to update. - Make a separate partition for all build output (i.e. hdb1) - that way the Guest OS can be maintained and the build can be chucked by dropping the partition / disk image (hdb). - Steal the stuff I've done and adapt it... You can find it at http://www.northern.ca/projects/openembedded/ (the small file being the build user's directory, the big being the whole image w/ build user directory) - If there are any questions about my stuff don't hesitate to ask... (I get digests of this list so you might want to cc me directly) Cheers, -Garth (author of QEMUMenu) --=20 Northern.CA =3D=3D=3D-- http://www.northern.ca/ Canada's Search Engine