How to get regular stuff working: Difference between revisions
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== a few notes and a reminder on Compiling == | == a few notes and a reminder on Compiling == | ||
Compiling in Alpine may be more challenging because it uses [http://www.musl-libc.org/ musl-libc] instead of glibc. | Compiling in Alpine may be more challenging because it uses [http://www.musl-libc.org/ musl-libc] instead of glibc. Please review [wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Functional_differences_from_glibc The functional differences with glibc ] if you think of porting packages. | ||
Revision as of 19:20, 31 January 2016
Man pages
Not all man-pages are in Alpine, those who are are not readily available after installing man and man-pages, you also need to install mdocml-pages to have man pages built at install time. Below is the quick and easy commandline:
apk add man man-pages mdocml-pages
a few notes and a reminder on Compiling
Compiling in Alpine may be more challenging because it uses musl-libc instead of glibc. Please review [wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Functional_differences_from_glibc The functional differences with glibc ] if you think of porting packages.
(unvalidated) apk packages to install so one can start building software
apk add build-base gcc abuild
a complete install for cmake looks like
apk add cmake cmake-doc extra-cmake-modules extra-cmake-modules-doc