[M3devel] Build Server - Plan

[Hendrik Boom]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 01:27:54PM -0700, Darko Volaric wrote:
> I'm setting up a server for building CM3 that takes a "minimalist" approach.
> 
> It's a machine running several virtual machines, one for each platform
> supported by CM3. Each VM will contain clean install of the OS plus any
> external tool dependencies. It will have a minimal compiler install,
> basically enough to compile itself for the host target.
> 
> I'm going create one VM for each target I have a bootstrap compiler for, so
> if you think you'll find this useful and you want a target supported PLEASE
> CONTRIBUTE A BOOTSTRAP COMPILER. MacOS, Linux and Windows will be first up.
> 
> Users can request any version of the compiler from the github repository
> and all new commits will be automatically built for all platforms.
> 
> The publicly available build products will be:
> 
> - minimal executables for bootstrap, eg the frontend and a backend
> - model compiler config files
> - compilation logs for bootstrap executables
> - compilation logs for most modules in the github repository
> - logs for certain tests
> 
> Packages, libraries, scripts and non-essential tools or executables will
> not be built or used, the idea being that people take the minimal
> bootstraps and build from there.
> 
> I'll post the URL when it's up and running and any suggestions are welcome.

Will the C backend be one of the platforms (or several, if they're not 
yet all compatible?) 

-- hendrik