Nim cross-compiled in OpenEmbedded

2022-09-28 Thread BarryK
I have cross-compiled Nim version 1.6.8 in OpenEmbedded and also greatly refined the build recipe, having learnt a bit more since being a raw beginner a couple of weeks ago. I have posted the OE build recipes here:

Nim cross-compiled in OpenEmbedded

2022-08-28 Thread BarryK
I learning process, have improved the recipes in OpenEmbedded. I have written a utility, 'debdb2pupdb.nim', that converts a Debian package database file to Puppy Linux package format. Posted about it here: One thing that

Nim cross-compiled in OpenEmbedded

2022-08-24 Thread BarryK
Ha ha, I didn't even know what "A/B partition" is! Until now, looked it up. As EasyOS is built from cross-compiled packages, it was easy to build aarch64 packages, and consequently I did create an EasyOS for the rpi4. Getting a bit old though. Mostly I write ash/bash shell scripts, some utiliti

Nim cross-compiled in OpenEmbedded

2022-08-23 Thread BarryK
I am posting about cross-compiling the nim source package, not nim applications. There is a build recipe on github, but it is a couple of years old, and didn't work for me. Also, it was incomplete: I fixed the recipe, and now have cross-compiled nim, koch,