tcl-open-vm-tools

Tools to build open-vm-tools for TinyCoreLinux 6.3

The fast track building instructions

1. Boot a system with tcl6.3 and least 1GB of RAM.
2. Install tce package for git

    tce-load -iw git

1. Clone git repository with building instructions and tools

    git clone https://github.com/lapawa/tc5-open-vm-tools.git &&
    cd tc5-open-vm-tools

1. Prepare the tiny core machine for building the tools

   ./prepare-tcl-to-build.sh

This script will install additional tce packages and get the open-vm-tools tarball from sourceforge.net.

1. Change user to root.

    sudo -s

1. Start build script ./build-and-install.sh
2. Good luck
3. The build script will spit out two tinycore extensions: open-vm-tools.tcz and open-vm-tools-modules-KERNEL.tcz

Putting it al in one line

    tce-load -iw git && git clone https://github.com/lapawa/tc5-open-vm-tools.git && cd tc5-open-vm-tools && ./prepare-tcl-to-build.sh && sudo ./build-and-install.sh

Tested with these versions

• TinyCore : v5.2 i686 http://www.tinycorelinux.com
• open-vm-tools : 9.4.0-1208544 http://open-vm-tools.sf.net
• linux kernel : 3.8.13-tinycore The build script is kernel version independent and uses uname -r to find kernel header files

Build dependencies

• git # To clone repository from github.com/lapawa/tc5-open-vm-tools
• compiletc # this meta package pulls in a lot of necessary development tools
• linux-kernel-sources-env # Installs the shell script /usr/local/bin/linux-kernel-sources-env.sh which will prepare kernel sources/headers
• glibc_apps # /usr/bin/rpcgen is in this packet
• squashfs-tools-4.x # Tools to build the .tcz file
• glib2-dev #
• libtirpc-dev # libary for remote procedure calls. The xdr_ datatype are define in there.
• Xorg-7.7-dev
• gtk2-dev # because of a missing parameter in lib/appUtil/Makefile.am file it is not possible to compile with X and without gtk2
• libGL-dev # gtk2 and cairo expect these header files.
• gtkmm-dev
• fuse

Instructions used to configure

Set these environment variables before starting configure script:

    export RPCGENFLAGS="-Y /usr/local/bin"
    export CFLAGS="-march=i486 -mtune=i686 -Os -pipe -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -I/usr/local/include/tirpci -DHAVE_TIRPC"
    export CXXFLAGS="-march=i486 -mtune=i686 -Os -pipe"
    export LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -ltirpc"

Additional configure options:

• --with-x
• --without-pam
• --without-gtkmm
• --without-procps
• --without-dnet
• --without-icu

Look into build-and-install.sh for details.