How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my container”

Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by lmm on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:46AM (#36891180)

> Not at all. They make cross compiling fairly trivial, and give teams a way of managing cross compiled dependencies.

How so? A container is the same architecture as the host, how does that help with cross compiling?

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by coderenegade on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:29AM (#36891514)

You combine qemu with docker. You can then run arm containers and compile your code locally for deployment to an arm board.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by lmm on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:54AM (#36891721)

Qemu is the part that's making that possible though. What's docker adding?

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by imtringued on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:18PM (#36898748)

The ability to kickstart the whole process with a few commands, possibly just a single bash script.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by lmm on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:54PM (#36902338)

So what Vagrant already did?

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