VM Build Enviroment

[milo christiansen]

I was messing around with qemu and had a interesting idea; make a pre-configured build environment on a VM.

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Perfect setup every time
Works the same for all users
Can pre-configure everything for easy automated builds
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More files to download (at least a few hundred meg)
Need qemu or Vmware player

OS
Windows would not work because it's proprietary, so some version of Linux would be the best.
The problems with this would be:
Non Linux users may have problems
Have to cross compile for Windows & Mac OS X

I don't think this would be a complete replacement for other setups, just a easy to use one for non programmers to check out trunk

[Kamaze]

I would suggest a VirtualBox VM instead of plain qemu.

[cybersphinx]

How about a simple generic disk image instead of everyone pitching his favorite VM's format?

Anyway, the basic setup should be simple: Install Debian (testing or unstable, not sure if stable works) with some lightweight desktop and the necessary tools (gcc-mingw32, bison, flex...), done. The problem is more documenting how to actually use the thing for people unfamiliar with Linux.

[bornemix]

Make a startup script download latest trunk, compile it, and start it automatically?

[i-NoD]

Start it automatically with 8 AIs in skirmish mode. No need in end-user.

[milo christiansen]

I would suggest a VirtualBox VM instead of plain qemu

Or just as a raw hard disk image.

I just finished downloading one of the GNU Linux OSes (gNewSense) so I want to get every thing configured and striped for minimum size to see how big of an disk image it would be.

[Kamaze]

How about a simple generic disk image instead of everyone pitching his favorite VM's format?

Or just as a raw hard disk image.

So that windows users are locked out?

[milo christiansen]

So far as I know a raw image can be ether used or converted to be used with any VM, correct me if i'm wrong.

After several hours useing linux I can report that there are a few things i realy like but too many of its fetures require a net conection which I lack o well, in a few weeks I should be able to configure every thing needed to compile warzone then I'll see how big my disk image is.

[milo christiansen]

Well the verdict is that with no net connection and little Linux experience I find my self unable to get all the dependencies much less compile warzone