Design: new package "SynoCli dev"

[ymartin59]

Create a package for small command line utilities dedicated to development tasks.
Revival of #2261
Tools candidates:

• ldd (provided by synogear)
• nice
• gcc
• gdb cross package (provided by synogear)
• bc [available with Add GNU bc #2071 #4037)
• binutils
• strace (provided by synogear)

Any other ideas?
Wanted contribution: an generic icon for "SynoCli" package group, with "dev" text addition for category

[ymartin59]

@hgy59 Do you have ever started this package?

[hgy59]

@ymartin59 I have started in january but didn't even create a branch. Only bc is integrated (into diyspk).
While trying to add gdb I left this aside...

[michealespinola]

bc would be very useful so we could use diagnostic scripts like dnsperftest, etc.

[cmencore]

+1 for bsdmainutils.. I'm trying to use transcrypt for git encryption, which requires the column command

[hgy59]

The former idea for a dev(elop) package was to bundle developper tools (and not small cli tools) like compiler, depugger, etc.

So we probably need a synocli-misc package, for miscellaneous utilities like

• bc
• from bsdmainutils
  • column
• from util-linux
  • rev ([Package Request] util-linux/rev #3798)
• from moreutils ([Package Request] moreutils #5453)
  • sponge
• ...

[hgy59]

+1 for bsdmainutils.. I'm trying to use transcrypt for git encryption, which requires the column command

@cmencore what about the column command from util-linux? Would this solve your issue too?

[hgy59]

closing this, as we now have syncli-devel (and synocli-misc).
The missing tool is gcc, but this will need to be delivered as non generic packages due to the dependency of kernel.

[michealespinola]

Thank you very much for your continued efforts, and for both of these latest toolset packages. This helps further reduce my reliance on Entware.

[jbsilva]

closing this, as we now have syncli-devel (and synocli-misc). The missing tool is gcc, but this will need to be delivered as non generic packages due to the dependency of kernel.

Is gcc available anywhere for Synology?

(Sorry if this is not the place)

[hgy59]

closing this, as we now have syncli-devel (and synocli-misc). The missing tool is gcc, but this will need to be delivered as non generic packages due to the dependency of kernel.

Is gcc available anywhere for Synology?

(Sorry if this is not the place)

gcc is not and will not be included in synocli-devel as it must be different for each dedicated architecture.
And it is still in (slow) progress in #4469.

[th0ma7]

@jbsilva no, not yet as we've struggled to generate a working build of gcc. Although what you have available is the LLVM project part of the synocli-devel package provided by our SynoCommunity. LLVM includes clang c compiler along with clang++ and clang-cpp and all relevant toolset that can be used in place of gcc.

Otherwhise, you can use this spksrc project as a container and cross-compile working binaries for your NAS archs. This involves learning how to use this framework and is a good opportunity to enhance existing packages we provide or help so we can publish new ones that you're interested in (so you don't have to compile locally from your NAS anymore). Documentation is available from the from page https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc

Hope this helps, good luck!

[jbsilva]

@hgy59 @th0ma7 Thank you very much for the quick answers. I'll take a look at the links.
Also thank you a lot for the great work! The currently available packages already help me a lot.