why are you using three different distros to build a single application?
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Probably nixos to run distrobox with fedora, then using podman to run debian to compile the C application.
The why is a good question, but I'd also like to know "How?"
I'd assume virtual machines - as for why, just checking their program works on different systems I guess
according to the meme it's just compiling, no other build steps... suspicious
Yeah, probably more boring than I assumed; podman with 1 apt based distro, one rpm based distro, and Nixos. Each doing an independent build and packaging in their respective builds systems.
I was hoping for some rube Goldberg's machine of compilation, but that's probably not the case.
Well, first I tried compiling it on my own distro (which isn't listed in the image). Then I tried compiling it with the help of nix-shell (that's the NixOS logo).
Then I figured, fuck it, let's just launch a whole container for compiling, so I tried the distros listed in the official documentation (Debian and Fedora), which, you guessed it, didn't work either.
This is a hobby project that I'm trying to compile, so this definitely won't be the best showing of C, but still just astronomically more painful than it should be...
What does this mean exactly?
The gophers are https://podman.io/ which builds and runs containers. My guess is they are building the same application in multiple distros for their one application
Like
my-app-nix my-app-fedora my-app-alpine
It's a common practice so users can choose the distro they prefer when launching your container in their stack.
Pretty sure they are seals, not gophers.
A group of seals is a pod!
In this case, it's not my program, it's an open-source project I'm trying to compile, and I actually can't get the program to compile on any of these distros.
I tried nix-shell at first, then I tried launching containers of Debian and Fedora, which have official build instructions, and yeah, nothing has truly worked so far.
I do have a working setup on openSUSE, but it involves half-compiling it in nix-shell and then compiling the rest with whatever magical combination of openSUSE packages I have on there. This setup also happens to be on my old laptop...
Containers maybe?
Which one?
This game: http://crawl.develz.org/
It's packaged for my distro, but I'd like to play Nightly builds.
The game is developed for fun by a community, so I don't want to claim that this is peak documentation or build logic for a C application, but simultaneously, there's not many programming languages where I would have the thought to launch a different operating system just to compile...