Pony (Intel to ARM) Cross Compiler

Purpose

This Dockerfile creates a sandboxed, runnable Pony Compiler <http://ponylang.org>_ environment based on the latest commit to master on GitHub. We are cross compiling to the armhf (Raspberry Pi) platform.

Credits

This project was inspired by https://github.com/rbrewer123/docker_ponyc

Requirements

This is tested with the following software:

• llvm-3.6
• docker 1.9.0 (running on OSX 10.11.2)

Since its main dependency is docker, it should run on any platform with docker installed (e.g. OS X). It may or may not work with earlier versions of docker. To install docker on your system, see the official docker installation instructions <https://docs.docker.com/installation>_.

Installation

To build the docker image::

  make build

To test your new image::

  make test
  make version

To push your new image::

  make push

You can see your new image with this command::

  docker images

Grab the ponyc script from github like this::

  git clone https://github.com/lispmeister/rpxp

Run

To run ponyc from within the container, simply run the ponyc script::

rpxp/ponyc --help

Limitations

If you discover any limitations or bugs, please submit a GitHub issue.