Developing

Requirements

qemu-arm-static
CustomPiOS
Downloaded Raspbian Image
Bash
Git
Docker
Docker-Compose
QEMU for emulation
About 5GB of free diskspace for the build

Packages for Ubuntu 18.04/20.04

** Dekstop variants are known to cause issues during build due to snaps takeing up loop mounts **

sudo apt-get install gawk make build-essential util-linux \
qemu-user-static qemu-system-arm \
git p7zip-full python3 curl

Compiling source

git clone https://github.com/raymondh2/MainsailOS.git
cd MainsailOS/
make build

Other make options

make clean - Clean all previous build items except the source raspian image
make distclean - Clean up the source image and trigger a new download

Build layout

MainsailOS/emulation - Contains dependencies for emulation testing
MainsailOS/src/image - Contains our base raspbian image
MainsailOS/src/workspace - Created during build, and output for compiled images