building MINIX on LINUX using gcc

building MINIX on LINUX using gcc

[ckkashyap]

Hi everybody,

I would like to build the MINIX kerenel on a LINUX machine using gcc + nasm!

Is there MINIX source that is buildable on LINUX platform available?

thanks,
Kashyap




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Re: building MINIX on LINUX using gcc

[James Buchanan]

Hi!

> I would like to build the MINIX kerenel on a LINUX machine using gcc + nasm!
> 
> Is there MINIX source that is buildable on LINUX platform available?

comp.os.minix is the place to be!

See you there.

James

PS.  Get the official MINIX sources, and use a XX-to-YY translator or
write your own that converts the assembler sources to NASM.  It
shouldn't be that difficult., or do it by hand, since there's not much
of it.  The C code is ANSI and GCC should handle it.  Then you can
rewrite the Makefiles and possibly add linker scripts for LD, and you'll
have MINIX built on Linux in no time.

Re: building MINIX on LINUX using gcc

[Horst von Brand]

<ckkashyap@spymac.com> said:
> I would like to build the MINIX kerenel on a LINUX machine using gcc +
> nasm!

Minix is 8086 (64KiB maximum segment size, etc). You might try to run Minix
under dosemu, though...

> Is there MINIX source that is buildable on LINUX platform available?

I doubt it. It would need a _lot_ of tweaking to build, or you'd have to
build your own tools targeting 8086.