Easy cross-compiling

[Paulie420]

I have many many ARM computers, and a few lower-middle end ThinkPad systems. However, for everything 'pretty' or that needs horsepower, we use iMac Pro 27" setups... I have 2 of those in the house.

You could set up a build farm of these dockers if you wanted to try distributing compilation to multiple amd64 machines. The DISTCC_HOSTS environment variable can contain multiple host entries, separated by spaces, something like:

Code:

DISTCC_HOSTS="<ip1>:<port> <ip2>:<port> <ip3>:<port>"

See the distcc man page for more details on that environment variable. I think you can choose different distribution strategies and stuff.

Hmmm... I think I'll try to get one working first; however its cool to know that the sky's the limit. Heck, I know that its nothing [super] new and that I could be using Docker for many cool things with the type of computing I do - but thanks for 'reminding' us...

I do think using my powerful iMac's for big things on ARM chipsets is smart... and I really hadn't thought about how that could be possible. I always kinda sandbox each architecture off - and then bam you remind me that we can drive our devices the way that works for us.

Anyway, I'll start at just getting it working. I don't know that I have anything that would require two powerhouses - however speeding up the ARM building process sounds great.