On Wed, Jan 15, 2014, Peter Kümmel wrote: > On 15.01.2014 10:08, Adrien Nader wrote: > >> I like the idea to build everything from scratch. Do you know > >> www.buildroot.org ? > >> It's Makefile based, with embedded systems as targets, not sure if > >> win32 would be too exotic. > > > > I didn't know of buildroot back when I started. I think that when I > > started, buildroot was actually fairly young. > > Didn't notice that your project is also several years old ;)
Takes time to make the tools, to make the architecture, to make the packages, to reach a state with nice features and stability, ... :) > > > > That said, I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to integrate into > > buildroot. > > First, buildroot generates images and from what I'm being told at work, > > it's not good at all when it comes to packages (it has not been made > > with that in mind). > > Yes, packaging is completely out-of-scope, makes no sens within buildroot, > was just an idea ... > > > Then, that would require some changes to buildroot which might not be > > received so well (add clutter for a platform most don't use) but I'm > > speculating a bit here. > > There is also the fact that win-builds inherits from the slackware > > package scripts which are simple shell scripts and it also reuses the > > software versions in use there. This has reduced packaging work a _lot_ > > (it is most usually trivial) and helps keep up with security updates. > > > > As for building from scratch, it's a fully supported approach in > > win-builds and actually something I do fairly often. It is described at > > http://win-builds.org/1.3.0/diy.html . > > The main additional requirement is that you need a slackware mirror > > available. As I said, I hope to make the chroot a possibility and not a > > requirement anymore in the next few days and I actually _need_ that by > > the end of next week. > > I only had contact with slackware via http://www.slax.org/ (as user only). > Using win-build maybe helps me to build slax's by my own :) You might want to look at linux-live which are the scripts which are used to turn a slackware into a slax (done by the same guy). Basically they do the best thing I'm aware of for live systems: aufs, squashfs with lzma and matching block sizes for these. These few things are enough to make a nice live system. :) Regards, Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
