Hello! Since many people that would develop AROS or software for AROS are scared by Linux installation, configuration and management, I thought to create an already configured Linux virtual machine with the development stuff already in-place. So these people can now be scared by the lesser-frightening installation of VMware Player on their system!

Have a look here:
https://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-pre-configured-development-machine.html

The environment is ready to compile (for) AROS x86-64, but targets (m68k, Arm...) can be easily added as explained in the bundled notes. The environment is already organized into different directories for main sources, portsources and builds. Have a nice day!

@paolone

Nice, hope this really helps development on AROS64

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@paolone

Why is Linux needed? Does AROS have the same problem as OS4 and needs cross compilation for developing big apps? Also, apart from that, it seems strange that anyone wanting to develop software would be scared of installing Linux.

@paolone

Very nice, thanks!

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@Hypex

Linux is needed because it has the same problem as OS4 and needs cross compilation to develop big apps. Moreover, 64bit AROS gcc is currently broken, which means that you can run it from the command line, but it does not produce executables. While we wait for it to be fixed, Linux is the only choice. By the way, AROS does not run on a single architecture but on many: by cross-compiling, you can produce executables for several processors from the same source code.

Apart from that, I consider strange that anyone wanting to develop software would be scared of installing Linux, however I don't even count the times I've been told "nah nah, I don't want to install Linux" when I ask if a program could be ported to AROS. So I hope that at least installing VMware Player or VirtualBox would be more acceptable by them.

Last edited by paolone on 02-Oct-2019 at 11:45 AM.

@Hypex

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Why is Linux needed? Does AROS have the same problem as OS4 and needs cross compilation for developing big apps? Also, apart from that, it seems strange that anyone wanting to develop software would be scared of installing Linux.

at this time im not sure how well native compilation works but many if not most parts of the necessary toolchain is ported to native. ti worked once i tested it on probably somewhat limited example, so no, aros is basically about to ready to compile their stuff natively.

said that i admit i dont have experience with native compilation as probably most folks that compile aros, since linux is a bit too convenient. the toolchain is far too easy to set up in my book, i have done it dozens of times over the years, and it takes advantage of multiprocessing. sure it already might be possible with aros x86. but sice i compile mostly for 68k, sometimes for ppc and x86, im not sure if it would be advantageous.

but who knows, one day ill probably try. especially that aros might have all components/packages in place, i have to install on linux to get compilation going. that would be great.

Last edited by wawa on 02-Oct-2019 at 09:35 AM.

@paolone

Thanks.

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