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Building Toolchains with Guix
15-a de Marto 2023
In order to deploy embedded software using Guix we first need to teach Guix how to cross-compile it. Since Guix builds everything from source, this means we must teach…
New Supported Platform: powerpc64le-linux
12-a de Aprilo 2021
It is a pleasure to announce that support for powerpc64le-linux (PowerISA v.2.07 and later) has now been merged to the master branch of GNU Guix! This means that…
Porting GuixSD to ARMv7
22-a de Decembro 2017
GuixSD porting to ARMv7 is a difficult topic. There are plenty of different machines, with specific hardware configurations and vendor-tuned bootloaders, and ACPI support is still experimental. For those reasons it…
State of aarch64 on Guix
24-a de Julio 2017
Since the recent 0.13.0 release, Guix supports building software for aarch64 (64-bit ARM architecture). Here’s the current status. Currently aarch64 support in Guix is pretty good, as…
Porting Guix and GuixSD
7-a de Septembro 2015
Quite a lot has happened lately when it comes to porting Guix and GuixSD to other systems. A few weeks ago, Manolis Ragkousis announced…
Distro of the Linux-based GNU system ported to MIPS
28-a de Oktobro 2013
The Guix-based distro has been ported to MIPS64 , specifically to the Loongson processors notably found in the free-software-friendly Yeeloong laptops . …
Guix gets cross-compilation support
26-a de Junio 2013
Recently , Guix gained cross-compilation support. What this means is that existing package definitions can be reused to cross compile packages. So for…