Build process rework...?

[fish4terrisa-MSDSM]

The current build process is strongly depend on the stability of the network access, with no download cache. Everytime I attempt to build the docker image, it'll need to download many vcpkgs(remind you, there're big packages like llvm-16, which is more than 1GB in size and need 10+min to download if you dont have good network connection and can easily break midway) and git clone ghidra source.
This makes it so easy for every build attempt to break due to unstable network conmection. What make it worse is that every time I need to rebuild this project, I'll need to redownload these packages AGAIN, which I already downloaded before, so I(and any other users with similiar network connection like me) will have to go through this hellhole again.
Please at least implement some sort of download caching, or at least provide a way for the user to use predownloaded files.

Also I dont quite understand why this project is strictly binded with docker environment, as there're no normal instruction about building this project with host toolchain(like script/build.sh is clearly designed to be ran inside a ubuntu docker environment, it dont even consider distros other than ubuntu. Also it always use vcpkgs and there's no way to just force it to use host toolchain)

[yomaytk]

Thanks for the issue!
As you pointed out, the current build system—such as the Dockerfile—is not very polished and needs improvements, and I’m sorry for the inconvenience. I plan to address this as soon as possible.

Also I dont quite understand why this project is strictly binded with docker environment, as there're no normal instruction about building this project with host toolchain(like script/build.sh is clearly designed to be ran inside a ubuntu docker environment, it dont even consider distros other than ubuntu. Also it always use vcpkgs and there's no way to just force it to use host toolchain)

build.sh shouldn’t be assuming a container environment. I’m currently developing inside a container, but some time ago I used this script to set up the build environment natively (though only on ubuntu...).

Also, elfconv’s build environment depends on remill, and remill was primarily tested on an Ubuntu + LLVM setup.
However, remill’s build system was recently improved, and it now seems to support a variety of platforms!

It seems like a good idea to update elfconv so that it can use the new build system.

[yomaytk]

@fish4terrisa-MSDSM
I recently updated the build system to reduce build time and remove dependencies on unmaintained packages. Please feel free to try the latest commit.