Linux development environment for Mac

The VMware image for Maemo Fremantle/DIablo SDK is corrupt so i'm thinking i should try and setup an enrivonment on OS X.

Technically, i have an Xlibs, and i could install things like GTK libraries. There are other offers for cross-compilation to ARM besides scratchbox in case i can't get that working.

So what's stopping me?

Mainly the total lack of experience, so i turn to /prog/ hoping that some of those smart ass 12 year olds are still here amidst the trolls.

We may have written our ANSI C compilers at that age, but it sure wasn't on a Mac. And if it was, it was that mental-ass 5`/573|^| 7 that has no bearing on anything remotely compliant, so it probably wasn't even C.

Try just an ordinary GNU/Linux VM, or perhaps some GCC cross-compilation. I dunno. It's all POSIX anyway, it shouldn't be too hard.