> N.B. If you're interested in building Midipix using this script, please join the project's

IRC channel #midipix on Freenode and ask for the address of the internal repositories.

A Midipix distribution consists of the following:

* the native Midipix toolchain, consisting of perk, gcc, its dependencies,

  and binutils,

* musl, a lightweight, fast, simple, and free libc[1] used by Midipix,

* the Midipix runtime components that bridge the gap between the libc and the

  executive subsystems of all Windows NT-derived Windows OS starting with and

  including Windows XP, and

* a steadily increasing number of 3rd party open source packages, as expected in

  any modern POSIX-compliant \*nix environment, including GNU coreutils, shells,

  libraries such as ncurses, libressl, as well as Perl and Python.

## Build-time dependencies

* **Alpine Linux**: bzip2 cmake coreutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip libintl libmagic libtool linux-headers make musl-dev patch perl-xml-parser procps sed tar wget xz zip zlib-dev

* **Debian/-derived Linux**: bzip2 cmake curl g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip lzma make patch procps sed tar wget xz-utils zip

> N.B. Some packages (*coreutils*, *grep*, and *tar*, among others) override

Alpine's BusyBox utilities of the same name, as the latter are either non-

conformant or defective.

## Building a midipix distribution

Install the above listed build-time dependencies, clone this repository, and run the

following command line within the latter:  

```shell

./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v

```

## References

* ``Sun, 25 Apr 2016 09:04:08 +0000 [1]`` musl FAQ  

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