[fpc-devel] Small virtual machine to cross compile FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Paul Breneman wrote:

> 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 100Mb is a bit small.
You'll need cross-binutils, X, cross-dev libs and whatnot.

650Mb would be feasable, I guess.

Michael.