Building NitrOS9 in Windows using Cygwin

Building NitrOS9 using Cygwin

This how-to will attempt to guide you through the process of making your own NitrOS9 disks from the latest source. Cygwin version 1.7.1 was used by the author.

Install Cygwin

If you do not already have Cygwin installed on your system, you will need to download and run the Cygwin setup.exe

For the purposes of this guide, we will assume you choose to install Cygwin using default settings, including using the default directory of "C:\cygwin". Please adjust as necessary if you choose other settings.

cvs gcc-core make zip

Obtain and build the Toolshed tools

cd /usr/src cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@toolshed.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/toolshed co -P toolshed cd toolshed/build/win32 make mkdir ~/bin make install export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

Obtain and build NitrOS9

cd /usr/src
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@nitros9.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nitros9 co -P nitros9
export NITROS9DIR=/usr/src/nitros9
cd nitros9
make dsk