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4168 :: What is needed for choosenim installation to support linux_arm (raspbian)

• markprocess (orginal) [2018-09-02T04:35:06+02:00] view original

  pi@iot200:~ $ curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh choosenim-init: Error: Sorry, your platform (linux_arm) is not supported by choosenim. choosenim-init: Error: You will need to install Nim using an alternative method. choosenim-init: Error: See the following link for more info: https://nim-lang.org/install.html

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• dom96 (orginal) [2018-09-02T20:57:55+02:00] view original

  Ideally an ARM server + time invested into setting up a build farm on it.

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• Libman (orginal) [2018-09-02T23:28:45+02:00] view original

  I once played around with the idea of setting up qemu instances of many platforms * many OSes for building binaries, automating as much as possible with qemu's telnet monitor console / ssh in the OS install. Full system virtualization is not as good as doing it on bare metal, but better than cross-compiling everything from one parent OS.

  Once set it, it could be a beautiful thing - a great way to show off Nim's portability. It could automatically generate download pages for Nim binaries (and anything written in Nim), where the user selects platform / OS / version from drop-down select-boxes (with User-Agent detection of common combinations).

  Unfortunately I don't have the funds to do this "in the cloud"...

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• markprocess (orginal) [2018-09-03T07:48:07+02:00] view original

  I could not find the program that creates choosenim releases (https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/releases) - is it in the repo?

  Is a pi3b+ enough of a server?

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• dom96 (orginal) [2018-09-03T22:42:15+02:00] view original

  nimble build?

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• shashlick (orginal) [2019-04-30T21:50:47+02:00] view original

  I just added support for building Nim binaries for arm into nightlies <https://github.com/nim-lang/nightlies/blob/master/dx.sh>_. The same approach can be used to build choosenim as well.

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