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Added build instructions to the README.

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Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2012-03-11 01:42:03 +01:00
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@ -72,6 +72,28 @@ Executable files natively uses the ELF format used on GNU/Linux and other
systems. There is no shared library support yet, but it'll be possible when I
get around to implement copy-on-write memory, mmap(2) and swapping to disk.
Building
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To build the Sortix source code you need to install a few dependencies. First of
all you need the GNU Compiler Collection (C and C++), GNU Make, and GNU
Binutils. You then need to build and install the included macro preprocessor
mxmpp somewhere in your PATH such as /usr/bin. If you wish to build the 32-bit
version of Sortix, you need the Netwide Assembler (nasm) as parts of it hasn't
been ported to the GNU assembler yet. You need a GNU/Linux build system to build
Sortix, although, it wouldn't be difficult to port the build system to other
platforms. You can then build the Sortix kernel and user-space utilities by
running make in the Sortix root source directory. By default it will build to
your CPU architecture (64-bit on 64-bit systems, 32-bit otherwise). Use
CPU=x86 or CPU=x64 as arguments to make to control which target is built.
To build a bootable ISO you need GNU GRUB 2, as that is used by "make iso" to
generate the iso. In turn, GNU GRUB relies on xorriso to create the iso file.
You can burn the ISO to a cdrom or dvd, or even dd(1) it onto a USB memory stick
and boot from if it your BIOS supports it. You can also provide it to a virtual
machine. Alternatively you can install the kernel binary and initrd in your
/boot directory and configure GRUB to boot Sortix.
Links
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You can visit the official website at http://www.maxsi.org/software/sortix/ for
@ -84,7 +106,8 @@ https://gitorious.org/sortix/.
License
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Copyright(C) Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen and contributors 2011, 2012.
Copyright(C) Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <sortie@maxsi.org> and contributors 2011,
2012.
The Sortix kernel, the filesystem servers, the initrd tools, the utilities, the
games, and the benchmark programs are licensed under the GNU General Public