Re: [Dragora-users] [musl] Re: [musl] Darkcrusade 2017Jun09 (cross compiler set)

[mzpqnxow]

Ah, I see, thank you for the explanation. Good luck, sounds like a very difficult and time consuming project, I commend your ambition.

Like you, I'm also very busy but I will try to track the project and lend a hand if I can if you're able to succinctly express some work that needs to be done, and it's within my area of expertise, at least. But I realize even that takes time and might be difficult.

No promises from me of course, as usual, due to time constraints.

Thanks again for the response

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 16:07 Matias Fonzo <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi mzpqnxow,

I was expecting something like what you just wrote, and it's my
fault.

On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:53:41 +0000
mzpqnxow <address@hidden> wrote:

> I briefly looked over the page but it's not clear to me what it is..
> is it a distribution? Or just a toolchain builder?

Both are related.  The cross-compiler is part of a generic method to
create a native cross-compiler based on musl.  The same one is used to
create the rest of a gnu/linux distribution based on musl, this belongs
to the development version of Dragora, the work involved in the
(incoming) version 3.

darkcrusade[1] is a simple script to invoke another tool[2] called
`bootstrap'[2].

[1] http://dragora.org/repo.fsl/artifact/61f6fe7c789f8e8f
[2] http://dragora.org/repo.fsl/artifact/d3e895bc073d1596

Normally, the process occurs in the stage number 0:

  http://dragora.org/repo.fsl/dir?ci=748dd8685839157a&name=stages/0

> I'm wondering if it's similar to
> https://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make (which is a one step
> way to build an arbitrary musl toolchain, and is excellent) or if it
> makes use of it (if you're building musl toolchains it probably ought
> to.

Thanks, I am aware of the existence of musl-cross-make.

I've started before in order to learn more about the cross-compilers
and with the goal to have a full toolchain based on musl.  Darkcrusade
is more like a descendent of musl-cross by Gregor Richards.

I don't have the intention to compite with other projects, in this case
with musl-cross-make.  Hope darkcrusade can be a good contribution to
the community.

> Sorry if I missed something obvious, but it sounds interesting and I'm
> curious, but just didn't see a clear/concise/understandable
> explanation of what it is exactly.

I know.  I am full dedicated to the project, but the work for the
next version of the distro has me busy (very occupied), I have not yet
taken the time to document everything, including all the details for
the bootstrap method/darkcrusade.

If it's worth, see http://dragora.org/repo.fsl/wiki?name=Cross+compilers


Thanks for your interest,
Matías