Re: Noob Darwin Question
Re: Noob Darwin Question
- Subject: Re: Noob Darwin Question
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:35:47 +0200
Am 10.08.2006 um 21:14 schrieb TjL:
I have an old PC (Windows 98 generation) which is currently running
FreeBSD. Would it be possible to download and compile the sources for
Darwin and run it on that machine?
You can use the OpenDarwin 7.2.3 release, corresponding to Mac OS X
10.3.2. This is the last distributed release compiled outside Apple.
Then there's a Darwin 8.0.1 release available from Apple Darwin,
requiring SSE2 extensions in your processor.
One can get pretty far with compiling an own full OS, see
release.opendarwin.org. Nobody picked up the stuff to make a
distribution CD, though.
Regarding the "re-opended" i386 sources at Mac OS Forge I've yet to
hear something. The i386 part of the kernel sources changed
drastically with the advent of i386-Macs. The PPC kernel was still
buildable for Intel, but the result wasn't compatible with the kernel
coming with Mac OS X-Intel.
Mac OS Forge is pretty much in the beginnings right now, so you have
to couple at least four things: Get the build environment (HowTo's,
darwinbuild) from OpenDarwin. Get the sources from Apple Darwin. Get
patches from release.opendarwin.org as a lot of packages won't build
out of the box. Get the new kernel (still named "xnu") from Mac OS
Forge.
Is there an FAQ somewhere which explains how to install this on a
generic computer?
For the older releases, see OpenDarwin.
Markus
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http://www.jump-ing.de/
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