os-development

This is my poorly named personal OS project.

I only work on this when I have the notion so things can sometimes be quiet for years at a time!

Aims

The idea behind this was an entirely stream-based OS. Each stream exports a specific 'interface' which doesn't need to be defined until runtime, which includes everything from file formats to kernel driver interfaces.

Further to this networking would be transparent, and instances running on distinct platforms (multiple servers and PCs, embedded boards running sensors, actuators or video in/out) could all transparently be accessed from anywhere on the network, by configuring a mesh.

Setup

As per https://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler

Install via your package manager/ports/homebrew:

mtools gmp mpfr libmpc

Downloads

binutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/

gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/download.html

grub (if necessary): https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-download.html

objconv (for grub): http://www.agner.org/optimize/objconv.zip

unicode font (for grub): http://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-12.1.02/

Set up

These commands will also restore the build environment whenever necessary after tools are built.

export PREFIX="$HOME/opt/cross"
export TARGET=i686-elf
export PATH="$PREFIX/bin:$PATH"

binutils

mkdir build-binutils
cd build-binutils
../binutils-<ver>/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix="$PREFIX" --with-sysroot --disable-nls --disable-werror
make && make install

gcc

which -- $TARGET-as || echo $TARGET-as is not in the PATH
 
mkdir build-gcc
cd build-gcc
../gcc-<ver>/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix="$PREFIX" --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++ --without-headers
make all-gcc && make all-target-libgcc && make install-gcc && make install-target-libgcc

objconv

mkdir objconv_pack
cd objconv_pack
unzip ../objconv.zip
cd ..
mkdir objconv
cd objconv
unzip ../objconv_pack/source.zip
g++ -o objconv -O2 *.cpp --prefix="$PREFIX"
cp objconv "$PREFIX/bin"

grub

../grub-2.02/configure --prefix="$PREFIX" --target=$TARGET
make && make install

Install a font for grub

tar xfz unifont-12.1.02.tar.gz
grub-mkfont -o $PREFIX/share/grub/unicode.pf2 unifont-12.1.02/font/precompiled/unifont-12.1.02.ttf

Building

Kernel, Library and Conductor have makefiles, and should be built in that order. After building them, run makeiso to generate the output ISO which should then work in Bochs, VirtualBox and Qemu.

Documentation

Doxygen output is at: https://electric-monk.github.io/os-development/html/index.html