• unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Probably nixos to run distrobox with fedora, then using podman to run debian to compile the C application.

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        6 months ago

        I’d assume virtual machines - as for why, just checking their program works on different systems I guess

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            Yeah, probably more boring than I assumed; podman with 1 apt based distro, one rpm based distro, and Nixos. Each doing an independent build and packaging in their respective builds systems.

            I was hoping for some rube Goldberg’s machine of compilation, but that’s probably not the case.

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      Well, first I tried compiling it on my own distro (which isn’t listed in the image). Then I tried compiling it with the help of nix-shell (that’s the NixOS logo).

      Then I figured, fuck it, let’s just launch a whole container for compiling, so I tried the distros listed in the official documentation (Debian and Fedora), which, you guessed it, didn’t work either.

      This is a hobby project that I’m trying to compile, so this definitely won’t be the best showing of C, but still just astronomically more painful than it should be…

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      The gophers are https://podman.io/ which builds and runs containers. My guess is they are building the same application in multiple distros for their one application

      Like

      my-app-nix my-app-fedora my-app-alpine

      It’s a common practice so users can choose the distro they prefer when launching your container in their stack.

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        6 months ago

        In this case, it’s not my program, it’s an open-source project I’m trying to compile, and I actually can’t get the program to compile on any of these distros.
        I tried nix-shell at first, then I tried launching containers of Debian and Fedora, which have official build instructions, and yeah, nothing has truly worked so far.

        I do have a working setup on openSUSE, but it involves half-compiling it in nix-shell and then compiling the rest with whatever magical combination of openSUSE packages I have on there. This setup also happens to be on my old laptop…

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      6 months ago

      This game: http://crawl.develz.org/

      It’s packaged for my distro, but I’d like to play Nightly builds.

      The game is developed for fun by a community, so I don’t want to claim that this is peak documentation or build logic for a C application, but simultaneously, there’s not many programming languages where I would have the thought to launch a different operating system just to compile…