BUILDING.md and related build tools/scripts fail to work

[realchrisolin]

Describe the bug Current build instructions and related scripts/tools are not functioning successfully

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Follow build instructions described in https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin/blob/master/BUILDING.md
2. Check out the latest stable release of Pengwin (e.g. 22.11.4)
3. Run the build scripts described in BUILDING.md from a Debian WSL environment on Windows 11 with VS2017 Community installed with various required workloads/SDKs installed

Expected behavior Build instructions work successfully as written

Additional context I'm a long time Pengwin user from back when it was called WLinux. Basically, I want to run Pengwin on an employer-owned computer without logging into my personal Microsoft Store account nor pay an additional $20 for the privilege of an easy installation. That said, since Pengwin is open source, there's no reason I can't build it for free instead (right?). While I was able to eventually build a successful x64 release MSIXBUNDLE after many hours of troubleshooting and making several modifications to various scripts/files to get a working build environment.

For example, the https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/legacy-rootfs-build-scripts/blob/master/pengwin-create-targz.sh script fails immediately if additional commands to create the /tmp directory and 'testing' subdirectory aren't included. Next, this repository that I'm filing this issue against already has a ./linux_files directory needed for the create-targz script to run, but line 22 of https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/legacy-rootfs-build-scripts/blob/master/pengwin-create-targz.sh#L22 expects the directory name to be "pengwin_linux_files". Additionally, the apt-get autoremove/remove lines throws a dependency error related to systemd which causes the shell script to fail. Similarly related, the curl lines in https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Pengwin/blob/master/linux_files/setup#L37 lines 37 and 38 fail with the $1 substitution in the URL string. This same bug is present in https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/legacy-rootfs-build-scripts/blob/master/pengwin_linux_files/setup.

I will be following up with a pull request meant to resolve these issues and other related issues that I haven't yet described in a couple of days with proposed changes to multiple files with an explanation of the issues/errors they are meant to fix or work around. All my research into the exact error messages I received and my code changes related to this issue is on an employer-owned computer that I won't have access to over the weekend.

[crramirez]

Hello @realchrisolin

Thank you very much for your contribution. As you noticed BUILDING.md is 4 years old. This is one of the many things to do that have accumulated over the years along with documentation and other fixes.

The repo mentioned there is wrong, also 4 years old. It won't create a good distro. Use the scripts inside https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/pengwin-rootfs-builds instead

[realchrisolin]

Greetings @crramirez

As you noticed BUILDING.md is 4 years old.

Actually, I didn't (but that explains a few things). I will detail individual fixes and exact commands I came up with to get it to build for me in the pull request I open later today or tomorrow and see if you have any input.

I initially built the latest stable release in GitHub from source, but then noticed you pushed 23.07 upstream without checking out a new version in GH and used the opportunity to clean up exact fixes/command changes. Even the rootfs-build script has issues.