Quiver Runtime

OPTIONAL Runtime for use with Quiver. Use this if you want to build quiver reliably on any Linux distro.

Installation

First clone this repo to wherever you want and download a release tarball for the runtime.

Now, extract the tarball to some directory using tar -xf quiver-runtime-i386.tgz

You'll need to change ownership of the files using sudo chown username:username -R quiver-runtime-i386

Finally, you'll need to set a pair of env vars that point to your install directory. Place this into your bashrc:

export QUIVER_RUNTIME_I386=/path/to/runtime/top
export QUIVER_RUNTIME_AMD64=/path/to/runtime/bot

Make sure to source your bashrc after adding these lines.

Usage

To use the runtime, source either env-i386.sh or env-amd64.sh to bring the changes into your shell. Now, executing some commands such as gcc, clang, tar will actually invoke programs inside the runtime.

Building programs using gcc after sourcing env-xxx.sh will link the program against libraries within the runtime, ensuring portability.

To restore your shell to the previous state, source restore.sh, and probably your bashrc again.

Rolling your own

The scripts for building the runtime are pretty portable, though a bit odd. You can roll your own custom runtime by editing packages.txt and make-runtime.sh. In the future this will be made easier.

Notes

This is pretty new, so it'll need a lot of tweaks.

A runtime for aarch32 and aarch64 is in the works, just don't have enough time to test it yet.