Hello, I'm pleased to announce you PRoot (http://proot.me), a new tool that requires no privilege nor setup to:
* run Slackware/ARM applications on your Linux/PC thanks to a CPU emulator like QEMU user-mode ("binfmt_misc" equivalent); * isolate these ARM applications inside the Slackware/ARM root file-system ("chroot" equivalent); and * make some host files accessible inside this guest root file-system ("mount --bind" equivalent). It's a kind of "lightweight emulation environment" since QEMU user-mode emulates the guest CPU only: all requests to devices are redirected to the host device drivers (file-system, network, ...). Let's see an example: the command below runs on a Linux/PC the Slackware/ARM program "/bin/sh" -- and all of its sub-programs -- through the specified QEMU: $ proot -Q qemu-arm /path/to/armedslack-rootfs/ Since there's no difference between this emulated environment and a native ARM environment (beside devices), you can use PRoot+QEMU to develop, debug, and test embedded applications seamlessly on our Linux/PC. Here is my favorite example: Perl is known not to be cross-compilable, however there's no problem to build Perl for Slackware/ARM on your Linux/PC with PRoot+QEMU (the prompts were changed for readability purpose): <linux-x86>$ proot -Q qemu-arm /path/to/armedslack-rootfs/ <armedslack>$ cd perl-5.14.2 <armedslack>$ ./Configure -de <armedslack>$ make <armedslack>$ make check There's a lot of things to say about PRoot and if you are curious I invite you to have a look at the following "Examples" section: http://proot.me/#examples If you have some questions and/or comments, I will be pleased to answer you either in this thread if they are related to Slackware/ARM, or in PRoot mailing-list/forum otherwise. Note that PRoot works on any host Linux distro and with any guest Linux distro, so you may wonder why I make an announce on this mailing-list? Actually PRoot was developed on Slackware64 and heavily tested with Slackware/ARM; Also, I'm expecting some interesting questions/comments from Slackware users/developers ;) Regards, Cédric. _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack