Build ToaruOS without docker?

[mxlgv]

Is it possible to build a package of tools (gcc, binutils) and ToaruOS itself without using docker? I just can't stand docker). And I find it extremely inconvenient. For example, I have no idea how to build SDL in docker. Or I'm using it incorrectly.

[klange]

You can manually install the toolchain, which is how I generally do development. I do not provide instructions for doing this, as the process will vary between different host environments, but you can look at the scripts used to build the docker containers as a reference: https://github.com/klange/toaruos/tree/master/util/docker

You will need to make sure you clone with full submodules to get the patched binutils and gcc trees. After that, there are essentially two parts to building the toolchain locally:

• Installing necessary packages: The list, at least for older versions of Ubuntu like what the Docker containers have been using, is here: build-essential python3 xorriso genext2fs mtools gnu-efi git automake autoconf wget libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev flex bison texinfo dosfstools
• Building the toolchain: This is building the customized configurations of Binutils and GCC. This is mostly automated by this utility script: https://github.com/klange/toaruos/blob/master/util/build-toolchain.sh

Once you have the toolchain built, you can "activate" it (add its bin directory to your $PATH) and then try to ./configure --host=x86_64-pc-toaru --target=x86_64-pc-toaru in an autotools project.

For SDL, if you're building from my fork, that should work okay. For new ports, the first stumbling block is usually a config.sub that looks at the target triplet and needs to be updated.

[mxlgv]

Thanks for the help!

[mxlgv]

@klange, hello! Sorry to bother you again. I managed to assemble the toolchain and it even assembles "helloworld". But when I try to build ToaruOS:

make base/lib/libc.so && make -j4

I am getting an error:

make: *** No rule to build target 'base/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1' required for 'base/lib/libtoaru_list.so'. Stop.

[mxlgv]

I fixed the issue. It turns out that the script cannot be run from the utils folder, it must be from the root.