PinePhone Sculpt Build Problems - Almost There

[Norman Feske]

Hi John,

note that the instructions at [1] refer to my 'pinephone' topic 
branches. I suspect that you are trying to build the PinePhone version 
of Sculpt using the release tag or master?

[1] 
http://genodians.org/nfeske/2023-02-01-mobile-sculpt#Building_the_image_from_source

> created genodelabs/pkg/sculpt/2023-03-14
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> '/home/mainuser/Devel/genode_main/genode/build/arm_v8a'
> Error: sculpt/launcher/report_dump not present in any repository
> make: *** [Makefile:431: run/sculpt_image] Error 248
> 
> I've done some rudimentary poking around to see it I could either remove 
> "report_dump" from the Sculpt configuration or add it, but I don't know 
> enough to accomplish either yet.
> 
> Could someone give me a quick pointer to how this is configured?  Also, 
> any thoughts on why "report_dump" would be "not present"?

This launcher got added with the following commit that still resides on 
the 'pinephone' topic branch and was not merged to master yet.

 
https://github.com/nfeske/genode/commit/2c02c26f48c36c3ffe594d0ff4728f6ab563bb45

Please also note the other commit on the topic branches (at 
nfeske/genode and nfeske/genode-allwinner).

As a heads-up, the 'pinephone' branch is volatile because it is my 
active working branch. If you want to use stable branches instead of 
living on the edge, you may find the 'pinephone_fosdem_2023' [2,3] 
branches more appropriate.

[2] https://github.com/nfeske/genode-allwinner/commits/pinephone_fosdem_2023
[3] https://github.com/nfeske/genode/commits/pinephone_fosdem_2023

> And while on the topic, the "SCULPT=phone" item of the make command is 
> intriguing - if one wants to create a customized Sculpt variant, how 
> does one go about that?

The BOARD and SCULPT arguments are used to form the path to a sculpt 
system description file like this:

   <SCULPT>-<BOARD>.sculpt

The sculpt.run script looks up this file in the sculpt/ sub directories 
of all repositories. In the case of BOARD=pinephone SCULPT=phone, it 
finds the file [4] at:

   repos/allwinner/sculpt/phone-pinephone.sculpt

[4] 
https://github.com/nfeske/genode-allwinner/blob/pinephone/sculpt/phone-pinephone.sculpt

This file describes the ingredients of the Sculpt system. You can find 
more information about the various customization options documented at 
[5]. E.g. should you want to keep using the master branches, you may 
remove the 'report_dump' launcher in the .sculpt file as a quick fix.

[5] 
https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/22.02#Framework_for_special-purpose_Sculpt-based_operating_systems

As one interesting tidbit, you can run the phone UI on your host Linux 
system using the 'phone-linux.sculpt' variant [6], which is picked when 
specifying BOARD=linux SCULPT=phone to the sculpt.run script.

[6] 
https://github.com/nfeske/genode-allwinner/blob/pinephone_fosdem_2023/sculpt/phone-linux.sculpt


You are indeed almost there. Good luck!

Norman

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