packaging/make-sysroot.sh populates a minimal Alpine aarch64 rootfs with
apk-tools-static, so a cross build needs no root, no qemu and no phone. Adapted
from imsd's, plus glib-dev for the bus layer that is coming.
Building against a real Alpine sysroot means the binary links dynamically
against the phone's own musl and libc++ -- libc++, libc++abi, libunwind and
libgcc_s are all already on pmOS. The harness this daemon replaces had to be
built -static, but only because it was built with the host's glibc toolchain;
that constraint was never about the target.
The pipeline is proven end to end rather than assumed: the cross-built binary
runs on the phone, and all five core suites pass there too -- on the real
hardware, not just under qemu-aarch64. That matters for modules that are almost
entirely little-endian field packing and offset arithmetic.
