Re: Apple's Linker

Subject: Re: Apple's Linker

From: "Daniel Corbe" <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:59:23 -0800

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I found a great tutorial last night on building a custom cross-compiling toolchain so that I don't need to employ the use of a build box any longer. I think that's going to be my best option for doing the meat of the dev work on my mac.

Regards,

Daniel

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Boyd Waters <email@hidden> wrote:

On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Daniel Corbe wrote:

I'm trying to learn more about how Operating Systems work so I'm taking an OS design course, which includes kernel development. Since I am a Mac user, I would love very much to complete my course work on my Mac

Hmm... if I'm parsing your email correctly, then you will find completing your (linux-centric) coursework on your Mac to be almost impossible. The Mac OS architecture differs from Linux is some important ways, not least of which is the structure of the kernel extensions -- which are not a.out (neither are x86 linux, they are ELF, right?).

Use Linux inside of VirtualBox on your Mac -- then you can "use your Mac" to complete your courseware, and not spend a dime. If you've got VMWare or Parallels on your Mac, then that's your ticket. Use the GNU/Linux GCC toolchain on the (virtual) Linux machine to do your coursework.

When you get a spare moment, read Amit Singh's *awesome* "Macintosh OS X Internals" book -- http://osxbook.com/

Some other cool OS books:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/5536k4
http://tinyurl.com/5eq86g

Sincere apologies if I totally missed the point of your question.

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