Does anyone have any good recommendations for a li...

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[napperley]

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a lightweight linux distro that is usable in VirtualBox, easy to install, and can easily install the GTK 3 development library/package (for cross compiling a Kotlin Native library) without having any other libraries/packages removed. Any distro based on Debian or Ubuntu will have the issue where installing the libgtk-3-dev:armhf package will remove other packages, including the libgtk-3-dev:amd64 package ☹️.

[Dominaezzz]

Lightweight. Arch?

[napperley]

Could try Manjaro (the more user friendly version of Arch?).

[napperley]

Wonder how would JetBrains do Kotlin Native cross compilation to Arm if they were using a Linux distro.

[Simon Schubert]

Manjaro 💪

[napperley]

Found using chroot and Qemu on Linux Mint to be the best solution for cross compilation ( http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/raspbian-virtual-on-x86.html ).

[Dominaezzz]

Are you bundling a static lib or just using the headers?

[napperley]

Using the headers and dynamic library files.

[bjonnh]

You could use docker

[bjonnh]

and just do your builds in docker containers

[bjonnh]

or in a vm that you ssh into

[bjonnh]

with vms you can even build on native distributions

[bjonnh]

they will be slower to run/boot, but it usually makes the whole compilation much easier to configure

[Michał Kalinowski]

Manjaro is nice one!

[napperley]

Isolated environments are created/managed with chroot (built into many Linux distros -

https://youtu.be/N87m6fxO5a8▾

), and Qemu handles emulation (it can virtualise CPUs unlike VirtualBox).