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SerenityOS build instructions
Linux prerequisites
Make sure you have all the dependencies installed:
sudo apt install build-essential curl libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev libgmp-dev e2fsprogs qemu-system-i386 qemu-utils
Ensure your gcc version is >= 8 with gcc --version
. Otherwise, install it (on Ubuntu) with:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get install gcc-8 g++-8
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-8 800 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-8
macOS prerequisites
Make sure you have all the dependencies installed:
brew install coreutils
brew tap discoteq/discoteq
brew install flock
brew install qemu
brew install wget
brew install e2fsprogs
brew install m4
brew install autoconf
brew install libtool
brew install automake
brew cask install osxfuse
Toolchain/BuildFuseExt2.sh
Notes:
- fuse-ext2 is not available as brew formula so it must be installed using
BuildFuseExt2.sh
- Xcode and
xcode-tools
must be installed (git
is required by some scripts) - coreutils is needed to build gcc cross compiler
flock
command can also be installed withbrew install util-linux
but in that case you will need to add it to$PATH
- qemu is needed to run the compiled OS image. You can also build it using the
BuildQemu.sh
script - osxfuse, e2fsprogs, m4, autoconf, automake, libtool and
BuildFuseExt2.sh
are needed if you want to build the root filesystem disk image natively on macOS. This allows mounting an EXT2 fs and also installs commands likemke2fs
that are not available on stock macOS. - If you install some commercial EXT2 macOS fs handler instead of osxfuse and fuse-ext2, you will need to
brew install e2fsprogs
to obtainmke2fs
anyway.
Build
Go into the Toolchain/
directory and run the BuildIt.sh script.
Once you've built the toolchain, go into the Kernel/
directory, then run
./makeall.sh, and if nothing breaks too much, take it for a spin by using
./run.
You can vastly reduce the build time of successive rebuilds of Serenity by installing ccache
and export
ing PRE_CXX=ccache
Bare curious users may even consider sourcing suitable hardware to install Serenity on a physical PC.
Later on, when you git pull
to get the latest changes, there's no need to rebuild the toolchain. You can simply rerun ./makeall.sh in the Kernel/
directory and you'll be good to ./run again.