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@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@ -Nota bene -========= - -If you're interested in building Midipix using this script, please join the project's +> N.B. If you're interested in building Midipix using this script, please join the project's IRC channel #midipix on Freenode and ask for the address of the internal repositories. -Obtaining and installing a Midipix distribution -=============================================== - A Midipix distribution consists of the following: * the native Midipix toolchain, consisting of perk, gcc, its dependencies, and binutils, @@ -18,41 +12,23 @@ A Midipix distribution consists of the following: any modern POSIX-compliant \*nix environment, including GNU coreutils, shells, libraries such as ncurses, libressl, as well as Perl and Python. -Compressed Midipix distribution tarballs and, separately, source tarballs are, -at present, produced every four (4) hours UTC after each successful build and -subsequently signed. This process is fully automated by a portable Bourne shell -script; all of the above mentioned components are cross-compiled. - -Thus, the most hassle-free way to get started with Midipix is to simply download -the most recent distribution tarball and follow the instructions below. It is, -however, recommended to anyone intending to use Midipix as a development platform -to familiarise themselves with the build process. Other reasons to prefer building -a Midipix distribution yourself include integrating new 3rd party software or local -runtime component patches. At present, a full build from scratch, excluding tarballs, -takes between 1 and 2 hours to finish on an 8-core Xeon 3.5 GHz host. -The build script can be obtained from the following GitHub repository: <https://github.com/lalbornoz/midipix_build>. - -If you obtained a Midipix distribution tarball, extract it into a directory and -drive of your choice, henceforth referred to as target directory; the drive can -be a network drive. -If you built Midipix yourself, the target directory is equivalent to the ${PREFIX} -configured in build.vars, which defaults to ${HOME}/midipix. +## Build-time dependencies +* **Alpine Linux**: bzip2 cmake coreutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip libintl libmagic libtool linux-headers make musl-dev patch perl-xml-parser procps sed tar wget xz zip zlib-dev +* **Debian/-derived Linux**: bzip2 cmake curl g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip lzma make patch procps sed tar wget xz-utils zip -Previously, this repository contained a shell script for usage within Cygwin -and a VBS script in order to obtain a Midipix shell environment. These have been -replaced with <https://git.midipix.org/cgit.cgi/mpackage/plain/distro/bash.cmd> -from the Midipix distro skeleton[2]. In that respect, and as a general rule, -midipix_build provides all the bits needed for (cross-)building the framework -along with the entire collection of third-party software packages, whereas -mpackage's task is to create a live execution environment (midipix-on-the-fly, -or mxfly), optionally including with it a set of tarballs for the installation -of a custom, midipix-based distribution. +> N.B. Some packages (*coreutils*, *grep*, and *tar*, among others) override +Alpine's BusyBox utilities of the same name, as the latter are either non- +conformant or defective. -References: -* Sun, 24 Apr 2016 09:04:08 +0000 [1] musl FAQ <http://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html> -* Mon, 14 May 2018 17:15:26 +0000 [2] <https://git.midipix.org/cgit.cgi/mpackage/plain/README> +## Building a midipix distribution +Install the above listed build-time dependencies, clone this repository, and run the +following command line within the latter: -Linux distribution-related errata -================================= +```shell +./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v +``` -Busybox based distributions need the gawk, gsed, and coreutils packages to build perl. +## References +* ``Sun, 25 Apr 2016 09:04:08 +0000 [1]`` <a href="http://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html" id="r1">musl FAQ</a> + +vim:tw=0 |