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Throwing a whole tech stack at this problem... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

why are you using three different distros to build a single application?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

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

[–] MajinBlayze 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The why is a good question, but I'd also like to know "How?"

[–] _hovi_ 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

according to the meme it's just compiling, no other build steps... suspicious

[–] MajinBlayze 2 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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...

[+] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] joshzcold 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they are seals, not gophers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

A group of seals is a pod!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Containers maybe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Which one?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 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...