On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 05:30, Ciobanu Alexander wrote:
Are there some FAQ's on how to build ROS on linux ? I mean what do i require and things like that ...
Here's an e-mail I wrote about six months ago describing my linux build environment. Basically, all you really need is the latest MinGW and an environment variable:
export HOST=mingw32-linux
and you should be able to build.
There are a few things in this procedure that have changed a little, but nothing too material. Don't try to check out wine, as mentioned below.
Good luck.
-Vizzini
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1) set up system
(i run a debian testing system and the versions in testing are pretty much the same as on reactos.com) apt-get install bochs apt-get install bochs-wx apt-get install mingw32 apt-get install mingw32-binutils apt-get install mingw32-runtime apt-get install nasm
debian's mingw doesn't name itself the way ros expects, so i made a bin directory in ~/ros: mingw32-ar -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-ar mingw32-as -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-as mingw32-dlltool -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-dlltool mingw32-g++ -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-g++ mingw32-gcc -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-gcc mingw32-ld -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-ld mingw32-nm -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-nm mingw32-objcopy -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-objcopy mingw32-objdump -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-objdump mingw32-size -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-size mingw32-strings -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-strings mingw32-strip -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-strip mingw32-windres -> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-windres
added to bashrc: export PATH=~/ros/bin:$PATH export HOST=mingw32-linux
2) make bochs work
- created a 500mb disk in debian's setup wizard - changed ram to 16mb, disabled com1 and lpt1 in .bochsrc - downloaded an iso of freedos from freedos.org and booted bochs with it (i get a dlopen error on bochs startup but i ignore it) - ran the freedos install onto my bochs partition
3) build the os
cvs -z9 :pserver:cvsanon@osexperts.com:/CVS/ReactOS co reactos cvs -z9 :pserver:cvsanon@osexperts.com:/CVS/ReactOS co rosdocs cvs -z9 :pserver:cvsanon@osexperts.com:/CVS/ReactOS co rosapps cvs -z9 :pserver:cvsanon@osexperts.com:/CVS/ReactOS co wine cvs -z9 :pserver:cvsanon@osexperts.com:/CVS/ReactOS co freeldr
- cd into each dir and run make - freeldr's makefile had to be patched (posted to ros-kernel a couple days ago)
4) build an iso and test
- i ported install.bat to bourne shell and used it to build an install tree - mkisofs -o ros.iso iso/ - booted freedos with d: pointed to that iso - copied everything from the iso into the c:\reactos subdir --> note that system32 must be in c:\reactos\ or it bugchecks INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE - modified boot.bat to debug to /DEBUGPORT:SCREEN (couldn't get kdb working right with bochs debug) --> loadros.com seems really sensitive about command-line arguments and i had to fiddle with whitespace to make it work
That left me with a usable reactos system.