Virtual Machines.

Turns out I can emulate a raspberry pi in software using QEMU. QEMU is not for the faint of heart, because it’s all command line and you have to start on a Linux system. Should I have splurged for the UTM Mac app? Probably. But if you’re going to do this, here are useful links.

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-run-the-raspberry-pi-os-in-a-virtual-machine-with-qemu-and-kvm
The doc is rotting, change the “buster”-specific stuff to a Bullseye install.

To get around the fact that libvert is fucked:
https://computingforgeeks.com/use-virt-manager-as-non-root-user/

Still no joy.

After all that, it’s still no good, because the Versatile Board used in the emulation has a max of 256MB RAM. I need more than that if I’m going to compile my app with a decent UI.