Re: Building the XNU kernel
Re: Building the XNU kernel
- Subject: Re: Building the XNU kernel
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:50:54 -0500
Care to detail what was required and different from the instructions? FWIW, I do think it's rather impressive that you're able to build an 11 year old OS kernel in modern hardware.
On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Programmingkid wrote:
> Thanks for the info, but I finally made the XNU kernel. It was surprisingly difficult to do. Something I wouldn't expect from Apple software.
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> On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
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>> Did you try to use darwinbuild ( http://darwinbuild.macosforge.org/ ) ? Look like it is relatively up to date, and the readme (at http://darwinbuild.macosforge.org/trac/browser/trunk/README ) says:
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>> To build a Darwin project, for example xnu, the darwinbuild script can be used in the following manner:
>> # darwinbuild xnu
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>> Le 19 févr. 2013 à 16:28, Programmingkid <email@hidden> a écrit :
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>>> I am trying to build xnu version 344.49. I thought that guide would help because of how close in date the guide and the XNU kernel are. It looks like Apple changed the way each kernel version was made and didn't document it.
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>>> On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
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>>>> FYI, that guide is from 2005.
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>>>> Apple doesn't even have the darwintools.pkg listed in that guide online anymore.
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>>>> http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020226235050467
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>>>> curl -0 http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/1.4/darwintools.pkg.tar
>>>>
>>>> Which version of XNU are you trying to build? FYI, here's the Apple URL for XNU, in case you don't have a current version.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/
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>>>> On Feb 18, 2013, at 10:01 PM, Programmingkid wrote:
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>>>>> I'm trying to build the XNU kernel (What Mac OS X uses as the kernel) and was having a little problem with the lack of documentation available.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been following this information on building the kernel: http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596006075/ch07.pdf. This document states I need the darwintools.pkg package to make the kernel. Does anyone know where it is located?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any hints would be great.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> -- Jean-Daniel
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