Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux (2018)

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  • nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

    • There is one emulator mapped per target system. Depending on the target system it will use qemu, wine, wasmtime or mmixware.

    https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/111839dcf6e9a8bac6972e...

  • meta-raspberrypi

    Yocto/OE BSP layer for the Raspberry Pi boards

    • - you'll need to make or get a layer for your machine type. for example, for rpi you'll need: https://github.com/agherzan/meta-raspberrypi

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • box64

    Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices

    • Until last week, I had a full Debian amd64 systemd container to run invidious on an ARM64 machine (a ROCKpro64) running Armbian, since crystal (the language in which Invidious is written) does not have arm64 Debian packages.

    Now I found a way to get arm64 crystal binaries. I got rid of the container, but Invidious still cross compiles to amd64, so qemu is still used to run an amd64 build Invidious of transparently.

    binfmt and qemu do wonders. It works well. One could use box64 [1] instead of qemu and it should provide better performance because it uses the native versions of some well known libraries (including libc6) instead of emulating them, but I failed to compile box64 this weekend so I stayed with qemu.

    [1] https://box86.org/ | https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/

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