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copied!<p>After discovering <a href="http://maemo.gitorious.org/scratchbox2" rel="nofollow">ScratchBox2</a>, I've managed to cobble together something workable. ScratchBox2 is a tool that facilitates the creation of a chroot suitable for cross-compiling and makes use of <a href="http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">QEmu</a>, allowing you to run foreign-CPU binaries on your computer. In my case, ScratchBox2 mediates access to a self-contained sandbox of Raspbian, an ARM-variant of Debian that's optimised for Raspberry Pi.</p> <p>The upshot is that once I got it all set up—and getting it set up took several tedious hours—I was able to simply type <code>sb2 -eR apt-get install ...</code> to get any required ARM packages. It's magic stuff. (Word of warning: I had no luck with the official ScratchBox2 packages in Ubuntu 12.10, so it might be best to build it yourself from source, using a recent revision from the <a href="http://maemo.gitorious.org/scratchbox2" rel="nofollow">official Git repo</a>.)</p> <p>To help you reproduce my setup more easily, I've put a Vagrant recipe for my virtual machine on Github: <a href="https://github.com/nickhutchinson/raspberry-devbox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nickhutchinson/raspberry-devbox</a>. It's almost certainly rough around the edges — this was my first experience with the Puppet provisioning tool—but hopefully others can make it more robust.</p> <p>I found these resources very helpful:</p> <ul> <li>A slideshow introducing ScratchBox2 (PDF) <a href="http://www.daimi.au.dk/~cvm/sb2.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.daimi.au.dk/~cvm/sb2.pdf</a></li> <li>A forum thread describing how to create a Raspbian chroot: <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=7413" rel="nofollow">http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=7413</a></li> </ul>

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