Compile Farm

[caspian]

I'm a small open source developer, and I'd like to distribute binaries of my program. I currently have Ubuntu and Slackware installed on my system, but I'd like to compile for other distros, and maybe even Windows.

I know that SourceForge used to provide a compile farm so that people like me could easily compile for a bunch of distros -- does anyone know if anyone else provides a service like this? My apps aren't large (they take about 5 seconds to compile on my machine), so I don't need to *huge* network. I'm willing to pay for a service like this if there's no free alternative.

I've looked a bit for a compile farm, but I can't find anything except for mega-corps, and these people charge waaay to much than what I can afford.

[saulgoode]

Personally, I would recommend that you contact different distributions (post in their forums if they have forums) and request the developers or users to assist you in providing a package. If you express that you are available for assistance if needed, I should think they would be more than willing to do the brunt of the work.

The maintainers of a distribution are usually the best qualified to produce binary packages from your source. They are familiar with the dependencies, know which compiler switches to use, and will be more likely to continue maintenance in the future (synching updates with their release schedule). This approach also frees up your time to enhance your project.

[kiddo]

sourceforge used to? uh it looks like they still do, no? http://sitedocs.sourceforge.net/status/support_cfstatus.html

furthermore, I *think* SuSE had one, don't know if that is still the case.

[caspian]

The link you gave was last updated in January. SourceForge discontinued their compile farm in February: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=665363

I'll check to see if SuSE's compile farm is still active.

I'm working to make simulation software -- so, I'm not sure if developers would be excited to help me since it doesn't help their distro directly -- or, am I mistaken?

[RAV TUX]

I'm a small open source developer, and I'd like to distribute binaries of my program. I currently have Ubuntu and Slackware installed on my system, but I'd like to compile for other distros, and maybe even Windows.

I know that SourceForge used to provide a compile farm so that people like me could easily compile for a bunch of distros -- does anyone know if anyone else provides a service like this? My apps aren't large (they take about 5 seconds to compile on my machine), so I don't need to *huge* network. I'm willing to pay for a service like this if there's no free alternative.

I've looked a bit for a compile farm, but I can't find anything except for mega-corps, and these people charge waaay to much than what I can afford.


The link you gave was last updated in January. SourceForge discontinued their compile farm in February: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=665363

I'll check to see if SuSE's compile farm is still active.

I'm working to make simulation software -- so, I'm not sure if developers would be excited to help me since it doesn't help their distro directly -- or, am I mistaken?

Try rPath (http://www.rpath.com/) and Conary. (http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary)