How do I build parts of the Darwin open source? Are there useful
instructions anywhere? Is there any easy way to check out ALL of the
source (everything necessary to build x86) for a particular version,
rather than checking out each module separately?
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I'm finding Apple's open-source stuff to be very frustrating to use.
I want to develop some functionality like lsof, so I got the source
and started looking through it. It's very convoluted, and supports
many many platforms, so determining how it does the one thing I want
to do on Darwin is a pain.
I thought it would be better if I could build it in XCode and step
through it in the debugger, but of course it doesn't have an XCode
project. So I thought I'd just build it with make, but that wants to
check out more stuff. That's where I ran into problems.
The problem is that the build script asks me what branch I want to
use, suggests a few. I want the latest, but I don't know what the
branch names are. I tried a few of the suggested names, but none that
I tried worked.
FWIW, I've included a transcript of the make process so far. Thanks
for any help!
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twinaero:~/darwin/lsof-8 rmann$ make
echo "Creating pseudo-copy of sources in the build directory...";
Creating pseudo-copy of sources in the build directory...
Configuring lsof...
Unknown Darwin release: 8.8.1
Assuming Darwin 1.4
You must first specify your registered Darwin user name in order
to access the open source repository. The companion Darwin user
name password must be stored in ~/.cvspass.
You must also specify the open source branch from which the headers
should be obtained.
What is your registered Darwin user name? email@hidden
Now you must specify the open source branch of the CVS repository
from which the header files will be checked out. These are some
likely open source branches:
Darwin 1.2.1: xnu-3-1
Darwin 1.3.1: xnu-4-2
Darwin 1.4.1: xnu-9-1
Mac OS X 10.0 (4K78): Apple-123-5
Mac OS X 10.0.4 (4Q12): Apple-124-13
Mac OS X 10.1 (5G64): Apple-201
Mac OS X 10.1.1 (5M28): Apple-201-5
Mac OS X 10.1.2 (5P48): Apple-201-14
Please specify a branch to use. (It needn't be one of the suggested
ones.)
What branch?
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