For those interested in creating setup/install packages for QEMU, I just
updated the GNU ARM Eclipse QEMU build procedures to use Docker containers.
The current build-qemu.sh procedure includes a single run script, running on OS
X and creating 5 files:
gnuarmeclipse-qemu-debian32-2.3.50-201505121804-dev.tgz
gnuarmeclipse-qemu-debian64-2.3.50-201505121804-dev.tgz
gnuarmeclipse-qemu-osx-2.3.50-201505121804-dev.pkg
gnuarmeclipse-qemu-win32-2.3.50-201505121804-dev-setup.exe
gnuarmeclipse-qemu-win64-2.3.50-201505121804-dev-setup.exe
The same script also runs on GNU/Linux, just that it does not create the OS X
package.
The Windows setup packages (32/64-bits) are built with MinGW-w64 running in a
Debian 8 container. The GNU/Linux archives (32/64-bits) are built using
separate 32/64-bits Debian 7 containers. The OS X package is built natively on
OS X, using some MacPorts tools.
The Docker images used for the build are publicly available on the Docker Hub
(https://registry.hub.docker.com/repos/ilegeul/), and the scripts used to
create them are on GitHub (The Dockerfiles used to create these images are
available from [GitHub](https://github.com/ilg-ul/docker).
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED
VIRTUAL SIZE
ilegeul/debian 8-gnuarm-mingw b8261b27add4 3 minutes ago
2.692 GB
ilegeul/debian 8-gnuarm-gcc ba65c1716b6e 12 minutes ago
1.437 GB
ilegeul/debian 7-gnuarm-gcc 16b30d6a4244 32 minutes ago
1.6 GB
ilegeul/debian32 7-gnuarm-gcc 2e416e412fad 43 minutes ago
1.596 GB
ilegeul/debian 7 a4ad8e2c6d76 4 days ago
96.13 MB
ilegeul/debian32 7 64980af805ad 4 days ago
93.65 MB
debian 8 65688f7c61c4 6 weeks ago
122.8 MB
hello-world latest e45a5af57b00 4 months ago
910 B
The current build procedure is documented at:
http://gnuarmeclipse.livius.net/wiki/How_to_build_QEMU
The script itself is available at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuarmeclipse/se/ci/develop/tree/scripts/build-qemu.sh
Regards,
Liviu
p.s. For those not used with Docker (https://www.docker.com), it is a
remarkable technology providing a lighter alternative to virtual machines; the
concept is focused on modularity ("one container, one process") and sand-boxing
(multiple read-only layers, that can be easily created and disposed). This
provides, among other things, a controlled and reproducible environment, ideal
for builds, especially multi-platform builds.
Highly recommended!
