Per the recent entry on ScratchBox business, The prolific Crweb has completed a first pass at a scratchbox/VMWare based build environment. Please help us test and distribute this by seeding on BitTorrent: Build Environment Torrent Seed
Please also check the updates page so you are not stuck with an old version.
From the man himself:
Whats nice about it is that it doesn't require svn access at all. Which was the whole point. people can develop without having anything to do with svn. As it grows we can discuss what needs to happen. This is just the foundation. What does it do:
* Provides tftp uImage, nfs rootfs. - Starting the virual machine and setting up the OSD to boot nfs is all that has to happen to be up and running.
* Provides gcc 3.4 or gcc 4 for compilation of applications.
* Provides qemu-arm emulation for compilation of applications that do self tests (samba, php, sql's, apache)
* Offers a clean interface to "make install" so that all you have to do is tar up the target directory and you have a "package". Then you clean, and build something else. When its done you tar that up and you have "another package"
Will be adding automatic producing of upk soon.
Comments
Great build environment!
Great build environment! Thanks.
I'm no hacker, but I've
I'm no hacker, but I've really been wanting to poke around with the OSD for a while, but the whole build thing had me feeling like there was no way I was going to be able to.
Thanks
Thanks, This is great!
snowboard
in fact, it was interesting. I like it!
:)
qemu image
Hi,
great build environment. But i has a question to crweb: Will you release a qemu image of the vmware image? Tried to convert the existing image with "qemu-img convert -f vmdk Neuros\ Development-s001.vmdk neuros_qemu.img". The command themes to work, but i can't boot the neuros_qemu.img file. Give the following error:
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 18
Any ideas? Or qemu release plans?
Thanks,
Thomas
Wow! This is Great!
Bless you Crweb! You are my hero! I'm no hacker, but I've really been wanting to poke around with the OSD for a while, but the whole build thing had me feeling like there was no way I was going to be able to. This is great!
IMPORTANT Please Read!
http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/User:Crweb
I have released a simple patch to be run after you are finished downloading. Simply login to the VM
wget http://www.limesg.com/osd/buildenv/NeurosOSD-VM-update-0.1a.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf NeurosOSD-VM-update-0.1a.tar.bz2
cd VM-update-0.1a ( i think)
./vm-update.sh
Thanks!
Finally - a developer environment for us mere mortals
A few months back I tried setting up the OSD build environment, following the directions on the wiki. After a few hours of frustration and more than one headache, I decided to give up. One would think that writing a simple "hello world" application that runs on the OSD would be a trivial task, but I was gravely mistaken.
Enter this VM image. After about 20 minutes of playing around, I had a simple "hello world" binary which I was able to copy over to a USB stick and execute on the OSD. Major kudos to crweb and whomever else is responsible for pulling this off. I was about ready to throw in the towel and accept that OSD development was out of the question. Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
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