[fpc-devel] Small virtual machine to cross compile FPC
Paul Breneman
Paul2006 at BrenemanLabs.com
Fri Oct 31 15:30:19 CET 2014
On 10/27/2014 06:09 PM, Paul Breneman wrote:
> I've spent a bit of time during the past 7 years trying to figure out
> how to simplify things by avoiding cross-compiling. This page has many
> of the details:
> http://turbocontrol.com/monitor.htm
>
> I think there is a way to simplify cross-compiling. Levinux is a small
> (~20 MB) QEMU download for x86 PCs (Windows, OS X, Linux) that provides
> a small Tiny Core Linux VM. I'd like to see something similar but with
> all the files and tools needed to pull the latest source code and
> cross-compile FPC (also with Debian instead of Tiny Core?).
> http://mikelev.in/ux/
>
> It seems to me that such a small VM should allow a nice standard method
> that will make it easy to test and see things work.
>
> I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
I'm not suggesting a single VM for multiple uses.
How hard would it be to make a small VM (~100 MB with Debian?) that
will run on a x86 PC and download FPC and Lazarus source (trunk) and
configure Lazarus for Android development?
I think having a small VM (that doesn't depend on anything on the user's
PC) that can easily demonstrate things would be very nice.
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