Preparing the build

Woah! You made it so far, all the way to here. Congrats! Now we gotta build Redox.

FIRST-TIME BEGINNERS

Bootstrap Pre-Requisites And Fetch Sources

If you're on a Linux or macOS computer, you can just run the bootstrapping script, which does the build preparation for you. Run the following commands:

$ mkdir -p ~/tryredox
$ cd ~/tryredox
$ curl -sf https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/raw/master/bootstrap.sh -o bootstrap.sh
$ bash -e bootstrap.sh

The above does the following:

creates a parent folder called "tryredox". Within that folder, it will create another folder called "redox" where all the sources will reside.
installs the pre-requisite packages using your operating system's package manager(popos/ubuntu/debian apt, redhat/centos/fedora dnf, archlinux pacman).
clones the Redox code from GitLab and checks out a redox-team tagged version of the different subprojects intended for the community to test and submit success/bug reports for.

Please be patient this can take 5 minutes to an hour depending on the hardware and network you're running it on.

Tweaking the filesystem size

The filesystem size is specified in MegaBytes. The default is 256MB.

You probably might want a bigger size like 20GB(20480MB).

Open with your favourite text editor(vim or emacs) redox/mk/config.mk
```
cd ~/tryredox/
gedit redox/mk/config.mk &
```
Look for FILESYSTEM_SIZE and change the value in MegaBytes
```
FILESYSTEM_SIZE?=20480
```

Customize Settings In config.mk Before Starting To Build

WIP this section needs more work.

Open with your favourite text editor(vim or emacs) redox/mk/config.mk

What are the interesting settings users might want to change?

Advanced Users

Advanced users may accomplish the same as the above bootstrap.sh script with the following steps.

Be forewarned, the documentation can't keep up with the bootstrap.sh script since there are so many distros from which to build Redox-Os from: MacOS, PopOS, Archlinux, Redhat/Centos/Fedora.

NOTE: The core redox-os developers use PopOs to build Redox-Os. We recommend to use PopOs for repeatable zero-painpoint Redox-os builds.

Clone the repository

Change to the folder where you want your copy of Redox to be stored and issue the following command:

$ mkdir -p ~/tryredox
$ cd ~/tryredox
$ git clone https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox.git --origin upstream --recursive
$ cd redox
$ git submodule update --recursive --init

Please be patient this can take 5 minutes to an hour depending on the hardware and network you're running it on.

Install Pre-Requisite Packages

Pop OS Linux Users:

$ sudo apt-get install cmake make nasm qemu pkg-config libfuse-dev wget gperf libhtml-parser-perl autoconf flex autogen po4a expat openssl automake aclocal

ArchLinux Users:

$ sudo pacman -S cmake make nasm qemu pkg-config libfuse-dev wget gperf libhtml-parser-perl autoconf flex autogen po4a expat openssl automake aclocal

Fedora/Redhat/Centos Linux Users:

$ sudo dnf install cmake make nasm qemu pkg-config libfuse-dev wget gperf libhtml-parser-perl autoconf flex autogen po4a expat openssl automake aclocal
$ sudo dnf install gettext-devel bison flex perl-HTML-Parser libtool perl-Pod-Xhtml gperf libpng-devel patch
$ sudo dnf install perl-Pod-Html

MacOS Users using MacPorts:

$ sudo port install make nasm qemu gcc7 pkg-config osxfuse x86_64-elf-gcc

MacOS Users using Homebrew:

$ brew install automake bison gettext libtool make nasm qemu gcc@7 pkg-config Caskroom/cask/osxfuse
$ brew install redox-os/gcc_cross_compilers/x86_64-elf-gcc

Install Rust Stable And Nightly

Install Rust, make the nightly version your default toolchain, the list the installed toolchains:

$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
$ rustup default nightly
$ rustup toolchain list
$ cargo install --force --version 0.3.20 xargo

NOTE: xargo allows redox-os to have a custom libstd

NOTE: ~/.cargo/bin has been added to your PATH for the running session.

Add the following line to your shell start-up file, like ".bashrc" or ".bash_profile" for future rust sessions:

export PATH=${PATH}:~/.cargo/bin

Updating The Sources

How to update submodules using make pull

cd ~/tryredox/redox
make pull

How to update package sources using make fetch

cd ~/tryredox/redox
make fetch

Change Sources To Build ARM 64-bit Redox OS Image

WIP this section needs more work

cd ~/tryredox/redox
make distclean # important to remove x86_64 stuff
git remote update
git fetch
git restore mk/config.mk
git checkout aarch64-rebase
git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive
git rev-parse HEAD
git pull

Install Additional Tools To Build And Run ARM 64-bit Redox OS Image

sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools
sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm qemu-efi

Next steps

Once this is all set up, we can finally compile Redox.

The Redox Operating System