Nathan Hartman wrote on Mon, 17 Aug 2020 23:19 -0400:
> Since you're a Windows developer, getting SVN building on Windows
> might be a good first step to get acquainted in an environment you
> know.
I'm not so sure about this, actually. The Windows and non-Windows build
processes have little in common beyond the names of dependency packages
that should be installed. Furthermore, the non-Windows build should
usually take advantage of $distro's facilities, which only makes it more
different to the Windows build. (E.g., there's no Windows equivalent of
«apt-get build-dep subversion».)
Operationally, I second Nathan's idea of first getting a Linux VM and
building on that for practice. The distro should ideally be Synology,
or failing that, whatever Synology is based on (check /etc/os-release
and /etc/apt/sources.list* (sic) on the NAS).
We _would_ welcome help with the Windows build, of course; it's just
that knowing how to build on Windows isn't going to acquaint you with
building on Linux. For that, you'll learn more from building some
random package with few dependencies — say, rsync — on Linux.
Separately: What problem are you trying to solve? Why are you
looking into building your own packages?
Cheers,
Daniel
Received on 2020-08-18 13:47:48 CEST