Re: ARM VM with networking support?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> skribis:

> Never looked into it, but it seems that nix has proper cross compilation
> support for meson (using cross-file.conf as you mentionned), see:
> nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/meson/default.nix
>
> Sadly there are other build-systems where cross-compiling isn't
> supported:
>
> * scons.scm
> * haskell.scm
> * python.scm
> * ruby.scm
> * perl.scm
> * meson.scm
> * r.scm
> * android-ndk.scm
> * go.scm
> * waf.scm
> * emacs.scm
> * asdf.scm
> * ocaml.scm
> * node.scm
> * julia.scm
> * dune.scm
> * dub.scm
> * ant.scm
> * linux-module.scm
> * rakudo.scm
> * cargo.scm
> * glib-or-gtk.scm

Yeah.  :-/

> As I think that using --system is not viable (horribly slow, hard to
> find native hardware to cook substitutes), extending cross-compilation
> support is very important IMO.

I think we need both, it’s a tradeoff.

Emulated stuff is slow but it can work without any modifications.  In
some cases, it’s good enough, especially if our build farm provides
enough substitutes.

Ludo’.