> 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.
> N.B. If in doubt, consult the fault-tolerant & highly optimised 3D laser show-equipped
usage screen w/ ./build.sh -h or a hungry lion might eat you alive.
# Table of Contents
[Building a midipix distribution](#building-a-midipix-distribution)
[Common tasks](#common-tasks)
[Fault-tolerant & highly optimised 3D laser show-equipped usage screen](#fault-tolerant--highly-optimised-3d-laser-show-equipped-usage-screen)
[Non-exhaustive list of build variables](#non-exhaustive-list-of-build-variables)
## Building a midipix distribution
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.
Install the build-time dependencies listed below, clone this repository, and run the
following command line within the latter:
```shell
./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v
```
### Build-time dependencies
* **Alpine Linux**: binutils bzip2 cmake coreutils curl findutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip libc-dev linux-headers lzip make musl-dev net-tools patch perl perl-xml-parser procps sed tar util-linux wget xz zip
* **Debian/-derived Linux**: binutils bzip2 clzip cmake coreutils curl findutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip hostname libc6-dev libxml-parser-perl lzma make patch perl procps sed tar util-linux wget xz-utils zip
* **OpenSUSE Linux**: binutils bzip2 cmake coreutils curl findutils gawk gcc gcc-c++ git grep gzip hostname linux-glibc-devel lzip make patch perl perl-XML-Parser procps sed tar util-linux wget xz zip
> N.B. Busybox is not supported.
> 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.
## Common tasks
Rebuild set of packages in isolation, along w/ their dependencies, if any, as needed,
or forcibly, respectively:
```shell
./build.sh [ ... ] -r mc,zsh
./build.sh [ ... ] -r \*mc,zsh
./build.sh [ ... ] -r \*\*mc,zsh
```
Restart the ``configure``, ``build``, and ``install`` steps of the ``coreutils`` package.
```shell
./build.sh -r coreutils:configure,build,install
```
Rebuild entire build group:
```shell
./build.sh [ ... ] -r ALL native_runtime
```
## Fault-tolerant & highly optimised 3D laser show-equipped usage screen
```
usage: ./build.sh [-a nt32|nt64] [-b debug|release] [-C dir[,..]] [-D kind[,..]] [-F ipv4|ipv6|offline]
[-h] [-p jobs] [-P] [-r [*[*]]ALL|LAST|name[,..][:step,..]] [-R] [-v[v[v[v]]]]
[--as-needed] [--debug-minipix] [<group>[ ..]]
-a nt32|nt64 Selects 32-bit or 64-bit architecture; defaults to nt64.
-b debug|release Selects debug or release build; defaults to debug.
-C dir[,..] Clean build directory (build,) ${PREFIX} before processing build
scripts (prefix,) source directory (src,) and/or destination directory
(dest) after successful package builds.
-D kind[,..] Produce minimal midipix distribution directory (minipix,) RPM binary
packages (rpm,) and/or deployable distribution ZIP archive (zipdist.)
zipdist implies minipix.
-F ipv4|ipv6|offline
Force IPv4 (ipv4) or IPv6 (ipv6) when downloading package archives
and/or Git repositories or don't download either at all (offline.)
-h Show this screen.
-p jobs Enables parallelisation at group-level, whenever applicable.
-P The maximum count of jobs defaults to the number of logical
processors on the host system divided by two (2.)
If -R is not specified and at least one (1) package fails to build,
all remaining package builds will be forcibly aborted for convenience.
-r [*[*]]ALL[:step,..]|LAST|name[,..][:step,..]
Restart all packages/the specified comma-separated package(s)
completely or at optionally specified comma-separated step(s)
or restart the last failed package and resume build.
Prepend w/ `*' to automatically include dependencies and `**' to
forcibly rebuild all dependencies.
Currently defined steps are:
fetch_wget, fetch_git, fetch_extract,
configure_patch_pre, configure_autotools, configure_patch, configure,
build,
install_subdirs, install_make, install_files, install_libs, install, and install_rpm.
-R Ignore build failures, skip printing package logs, and continue
building (relaxed mode.)
-v[v[v[v]]] Be verbose; -vv: always print package logs; -vvv: set xtrace during package builds; -vvvv: logs fileops.
--as-needed Don't build unless the midipix_build repository has received new commits.
--debug-minipix Don't strip(1) minipix binaries to facilitate debugging minipix.
<group>[ ..] One of: host_deps, host_deps_rpm, host_toolchain, host_tools, minipix,
native_packages, native_runtime, native_toolchain, and/or native_tools.
```
## Non-exhaustive list of build variables
The following variables are primarily defined in ``midipix.env`` and may be overriden
on a per-build basis on the command-line after the last argument, if any, e.g.:
```shell
./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v PREFIX_ROOT="${HOME}/midipix_tmp"
```
Furthermore, ``${HOME}/midipix_build.vars``, ``${HOME}/.midipix_build.vars``, and/or
``../midipix_build.vars`` are sourced during build initialisation and may contain
additional overrides, particularly ``${DEFAULT_GITROOT_HEAD}``.
| Variable name | Default value | Description |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ARCH | nt64 | Target 32-bit (nt32) or 64-bit (nt64) architecture |
| BUILD | debug | Build w/ debugging (debug) or release compiler flags |
| BUILD_DLCACHEDIR | ${PREFIX_ROOT}/dlcache | Absolute pathname to package downloads cache root directory |
| BUILD_WORKDIR | ${PREFIX}/tmp | Absolute pathname to temporary package build root directory |
| PREFIX | ${PREFIX_ROOT}/${ARCH}/${BUILD} | Absolute pathname to architecture- & build type-specific build root directory |
| PREFIX_CROSS | ${PREFIX}/${DEFAULT_TARGET} | Absolute pathname to toolchain root directory |
| PREFIX_MINGW32 | ${PREFIX}/x86_64-w64-mingw32 | Absolute pathname to MinGW toolchain root directory |
| PREFIX_MINIPIX | ${PREFIX}/minipix | Absolute pathname to minipix distribution root directory |
| PREFIX_NATIVE | ${PREFIX}/native | Absolute pathname to cross-compiled packages root directory |
| PREFIX_ROOT | ${HOME}/midipix | Absolute pathname to top-level directory |
| PREFIX_RPM | ${PREFIX}/rpm | Absolute pathname to package RPM archive root directory |
The following variables are package-specific and receive their value from either
top-level defaults defined in ``midipix.env``, build group-specific defaults from
the build group the package pertains to and defined in its corresponding file beneath
``groups/``, or package-specific overrides defined either in the latter and/or in
its corresponding file beneath ``vars/``. Additionally, overrides may be specified
on a per-build basis on the command-line after the last argument, with each variable
prefixed w/ ``PKG_``, e.g.: ``./build.sh [ ... ] PKG_ZSH_CC="/bin/false"``.
The minimum set of package variables that must be provided is ``SHA256SUM, URL, VERSION``
and ``URLS_GIT``, respectively.
| Package variable name | Description |
| --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AR | Command- or pathname of toolchain library archive editor (ar(1)) |
| BASE_DIR | Absolute pathname to package build root directory beneath ${BUILD_WORKDIR} |
| BUILD_DIR | Directory name of package build directory beneath ${PKG_BASE_DIR} |
| BUILD_STEPS_DISABLE | List of build steps to disable during package build |
| BUILD_TYPE | Cross-compiled toolchain (cross,) host (host,) or cross-compiled package build type |
| CC | Command- or pathname of toolchain C compiler (cc(1)) |
| CFLAGS_BUILD_EXTRA | Additional C compiler flags during package (make(1)) build |
| CFLAGS_CONFIGURE | C compiler flags during package (autotools or similar) configuration |
| CFLAGS_CONFIGURE_EXTRA | Additional C compiler flags during package (GNU autotools or similar) configuration |
| CONFIG_CACHE | List of GNU autotools configuration cache variables |
| CONFIG_CACHE_EXTRA | Additional list of GNU autotools configuration cache variables |
| CONFIG_CACHE_LOCAL | Additional list of GNU autotools configuration cache variables |
| CONFIGURE | Command- or pathname to package (GNU autotools or similar) configuration script |
| CONFIGURE_ARGS | List of arguments to package (GNU autotools or similar) configuration script |
| CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA | Additional list of arguments to package (GNU autotools or similar) configuration script |
| CXX | Command- or pathname of toolchain C++ compiler (c++(1)) |
| CXXFLAGS_CONFIGURE | List of C++ compiler flags during package (autotools or similar) configuration |
| CXXFLAGS_CONFIGURE_EXTRA | Additional list of C++ compiler flags during package (autotools or similar) configuration |
| DEPENDS | List of package-package dependencies |
| DESTDIR | Directory name of package installation destination directory beneath ${PKG_BASE_DIR} |
| DISABLED | Disable package |
| ENV_VARS_EXTRA | List of double colon-separated environment variable equality sign-separated name-value pairs to set during package build |
| FNAME | Filename of package archive file |
| FORCE_AUTORECONF | Forcibly run autoreconf -fiv prior to package (GNU autotools or similar) configuration |
| GITROOT | midipix packages Git URL prefix |
| INHERIT_FROM | Inherit variables from named package |
| INSTALL_FILES | Whitespace-separated list of files to manually install into the package installation destination directory beneath ${PKG_BASE_DIR} |
| INSTALL_FILES_DESTDIR | Whitespace-separated list of files to initialise the package installation destination directory beneath ${PKG_BASE_DIR} with |
| INSTALL_FILES_DESTDIR_EXTRA | Additional whitespace-separated list of files to initialise the package installation destination directory beneath ${PKG_BASE_DIR} with |
| INSTALL_TARGET | Name of package build make(1) installation target |
| INSTALL_TARGET_EXTRA | Additional name of package build make(1) installation target |
| IN_TREE | Build package in-tree within ${PKG_SUBDIR} |
| LDFLAGS_BUILD_EXTRA | Additional linker flags during package (make(1)) build |
| LDFLAGS_CONFIGURE | Linker flags during package (autotools or similar) configuration |
| LDFLAGS_CONFIGURE_EXTRA | Additional linker flags during package (autotools or similar) configuration |
| LIBTOOL | Command- or pathname of libtool |
| MAKE | Command line of make(1) |
| MAKEFLAGS_BUILD | List of make(1) flags during package (make(1)) build |
| MAKEFLAGS_BUILD_EXTRA | Additional list of make(1) flags during package (make(1)) build |
| MAKEFLAGS_INSTALL | List of make(1) flags during package (make(1)) installation |
| MAKEFLAGS_INSTALL_EXTRA | Additional list of make(1) flags during package (make(1)) installation |
| MAKE_INSTALL_VNAME | Variable name of make(1) installation destination directory variable during package (make(1)) installation |
| NO_CLEAN | Inhibit cleaning of package build directory beneath ${PKG_BASE_DIR} pre-finish |
| NO_CLEAN_BASE_DIR | Inhibit cleaning of package build root directory beneath ${BUILD_WORKDIR} |
| NO_LOG_VARS | Inhibit logging of build & package variables pre-package build |
| PATCHES_EXTRA | Additional list of patches to apply |
| PKG_CONFIG | Command- or pathname of pkg-config(1) |
| PKG_CONFIG_PATH | pkg-config(1) search path |
| PKGLIST_DISABLE | Inhibit inclusion into ${PREFIX}/pkglist.${PKG_BUILD_TYPE} |
| PREFIX | Absolute pathname of top-level installation directory and package search path |
| PYTHON | Command- or pathname of Python |
| RANLIB | Command- or pathname of toolchain library archive index generator (ranlib(1)) |
| RPM_DISABLE | Inhibit creation of RPM archive |
| SHA256SUM | SHA-256 message digest of package archive |
| SUBDIR | Name of extracted archive or git-{clone,pull}(1)'d directory |
| TARGET | Dash-separated {build,host,target} triplet |
| URL | URL to package archive |
| URLS_GIT | List of package Git URL(s) (*name*=*URL*@*branch*) |
| VERSION | Package version |
## References
* ``Sun, 25 Apr 2016 09:04:08 +0000 [1]`` <a href="http://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html" id="r1">musl FAQ</a>
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