Re: [MirageOS-devel] Compiling on/for ARM

[Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 07:52:26AM +0000, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2015, at 05:24, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > I thought github/mirage-decks would be a good first project to build
> > on/for my Cubietruck.  So after installing the mirage tool via `opam`
> > I cloned the decks project and proceeded to build it in unix mode.
> > `make configure` worked just fine, but `make build` did not.
> > Apparently `camlp4` requires more memory than what's available:
> 
> mirage-decks isn't a great first choice -- mirage-www would be better.
> The reason is that it currently crunches the *entire* slide deck into
> memory rather than use an external block device.  We do need to port
> the decks build system to dynamically read the slides off disk as they
> have grown quite significantly.  What Mort and I normally do is to
> delete the irrelevant slides from a local checkout on the ARM box.
> 
> Note that you can still get it compile fine if you setup a swap device
> as normal on dom0, but compiling it will take forever due to building a
> 50MB OCaml source file.  I'd recommend just playing with mirage-www
> instead, or the static_website example in mirage-skeleton (where you
> just populate htdocs/ with whatever content you want)

Thanks.  I'll switch to mirage-www then :)  Hopefully I'll have more
luck with that.

/M

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