maemo.org - Talk - Compiling Mer on MacOSX

Compiling Mer w/o OBS... sure you can do that :)

Can I also check if you mean "compile Mer" or "compile (an application) *for* Mer" ?

I'll assume you meant what you said...

Also, are you trying to
1) build Mer on your Macbook?
2) build Mer as natively as possible in Snow Leopard?

The answer to 1 is probably a Suse or Debian VM and should be a doddle.

The answer to 2 is probably a nervous breakdown ;)

If you meant 2 then we'll start something like this...

OBS is really nothing to do with the actual compiling... it's more to do with setting up the right environment and monitoring the build.

"All" it does is setup a chroot with the build dependencies and eventually invoke "dpkg-buildpackage -b".
It does this in the 'right' order by examining the dependency chains and waiting for one build to succeed before starting the next. Bear in mind this all needs doing inside an ARM emulator (qemu).

Of course a 1-line osc command (from OBS) does all this for you on your local box too (under linux).

You can do it by hand if you're feeling Gentoo-ish ;)

For each of the 200 or so packages:
"Just" download all the build dependencies you need for a specific source package; unpack them into a target directory (running the postinst scripts in the target as needed).
To get some much needed hints you can examine an OBS build log (in fact that's the most sane way to do it unless you really want to manually check the dependencies).

This is why we use OBS :cool:

Nb: undoubtedly there are other debian based build tools that will do the job too.