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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system by sophacles on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:05AM (#32459346)
Name me an OS that doesn't need an OS to build it.
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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system by hulitu on Sunday August 14, 2022 @01:25PM (#32461074)
It needs a very special OS: "git, lua, curl, a sha256 utility, standard compression utilities, and an x86_64-linux-musl cross compiler"
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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:07PM (#32461450)
Of those, only an x86_64-linux-musl cross compiler strikes me as even remotely unusual, and that's still widely available.
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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system by sophacles on Sunday August 14, 2022 @03:57PM (#32462383)
You mean besides just install the relevant packages by: "pacman -S git lua52 gzip coreutils gcc musl" on a standard arch install? (presumably similar for other distros)
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Re:Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system by solar-ice on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:24AM (#32466158)
That's... a list of things I already have installed, the Lua executable aside. This is a pretty normal-looking dependency list for native C software. Are you perhaps not used to building C software?
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