Building

At the moment building is done from an Raspbian / Debian / Ubuntu / CustomPiOS Distros. If you have another flavor of linux, or a version which is not supported, you can also install using the vagrant method, which generally solves lots of problems.

Build a Distro From within Raspbian / Debian / Ubuntu / CustomPiOS Distros

CustomPiOS distros can be built from Debian, Ubuntu, Raspbian, or even within a distro itself (for other systems use the Vagrant build option). Build requires about 2.5 GB of free space available, depending on what you install. You can build it by issuing the following commands:

sudo apt-get install gawk util-linux realpath qemu-user-static p7zip-full git

git clone https://github.com/guysoft/CustomPiOS.git
cd CustomPiOS/src
./make_custom_pi_os -g /path/to/new_distro
cd /path/to/new_distro/src
sudo modprobe loop
sudo bash -x ./build_dist

A note about building from windows

Building from windows is possible theoretically, but there is no success report yet. The main way to do it would be to use WSL in windows 10+ using vagrant. However there seems to be an issue in vagrant regarding this.