NOTE: This is not an officially supported build environment. It is a rundown on how to get something like this to work. Maybe someday we can fully support it...
Debian Squeeze i386 instructions
The recommended OpenXT build environment is 32-bit debian squeeze. The following Debian Squeeze packages are needed before building:
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For those that are using 64-bit and/or newer distros, one way to get a debian squeeze build environment up and running is using linux containers (LXC). You may follow the instructions to configure LXC, available at: https://wiki.debian.org/LXC
Debian Jessie x64 instructions
Setup cgroup:
sudo sh -c "echo cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab"
sudo mount /sys/fs/cgroup
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