Banana Pi port

[gizmo69the2nd]

Hi you all,

I'm new to this forum, so let me introduce myself first.
My name is Davy, graduated as electronics engineer.
Currently working as Android Wear developer.
Always busy testing/building new electronic stuff as hobby.
Interested in everything PA, stage lighting, stage special effects related.
Linux fan.

Now the real thing why I registered on this forum.
I have being testing QLC+ for couple weeks now and I must say, impressive tool.
I'm currently trying to make a standalone QLC+ lighting rig that fits in an 19" rack.
I was planning to use a Raspberry Pi as platform, but that would be to easy.
So I'm going to try and port QLC+ onto a Banana Pi.
I saw a post here on the forum that its not possible to use the Raspberry Pi image,
but it would be possible to compile the source and run it on a Linux distro.
Again this would be to easy. (after this post is written, this is the first step I will do to port QLC+)
As with the RPI image I want to create an BPI image without Xorg and any other "useless" packages that comes with a Linux distro.

So my question, could you provide me some tips, a starting point, a workflow how to do this?
What problems did you ran into when the RPI image was created?
Any help is welcome and would be appreciated.

greetings,
Davy