8. Building And Testing

Our approach allows us to quickly have a working prototype that can be tested in an emulated environment (e.g., with QEMU). Especially with the haskus-system-build <haskus-system-build-tool> that automatizes all of the building steps.

Note

As a comparison point, building a minimal usual Linux distribution from scratch is very cumbersome as we can read in the “Linux From Scratch” book. A lot of different packages have to be downloaded from various places, patched, configured, built and installed. Even if our approach is currently far from being on par with a usual Linux distribution, we expect it to stay much more simpler to build.