Building NitrOS9 in Windows using MinGW
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Install Mercurial
Visit http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download#Windows
Download and install either Mercurial-X.X.X (32-bit exe) or Mercurial-X.X.X (64-bit exe). Use the defaults.
Install MinGW
Visit http://www.mingw.org
Click the "Download Installer" button in the top right of the page.
A file called "mingw-get-setup.exe" will be downloaded. Execute this file.
Click "Install", click "Continue", wait until 100%, click "Continue".
The package selection tool will be displayed. We need to choose two packages.
Click on mingw32-base. Choose "Mark for Installation".
Click on msys-base. Choose "Mark for Installation".
From the Installation menu, choose "Apply Changes".
Click "Apply". Wait till 100% complete. Click "Close".
Exit the installer.
Configure your MinGW environment
Run the post install utility
Open the folder C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\postinstall
Double click on pi.bat
Type y
Press Enter
Type y
Press Enter
Type C:/MinGW
(Note the forward slash)
Press Enter
Press Enter
Configure the profile
Open the folder C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\etc
Open the file profile with Notepad++ or another properly behaved text editor of your choice. Do not use Notepad.
Edit the first line that begins:
export PATH=".:/usr...
Remove the period and colon directly following the first quote:
export PATH="/usr...
Now scroll to the end of the file and add this line:
export NITROS9DIR="/usr/src/nitros9"
Save and close the file.
Final steps in the MSYS environment
Open the folder C:\MinGW\msys\1.0
Note that the msys.bat file here is how you will open a shell any time you want to update or rebuild NitrOS9.
Double click on msys.bat. This opens the MSYS shell.
Add a couple extra packages by typing the following commands:
mingw-get install msys-coreutils mingw-get install msys-zip
Make a place on the filesystem to do our building. I strongly suggest /usr/src:
mkdir /usr/src
(If you choose some other location, update the NITROS9DIR setting in your profile).
Install lwtools
In the MinGW shell, enter these commands:
cd /usr/src hg clone http://lwtools.projects.l-w.ca/hg/ lwtools cd lwtools make make install
Install the toolshed
In the MinGW shell, enter these commands:
cd /usr/src hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/toolshed/code toolshed cd toolshed make -C build/unix install
(this will give some warnings and fail on cocofuse, we don't care)
Download and build NitrOS9
In the MinGW shell, enter these commands:
cd /usr/src hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/nitros9/code nitros9 cd nitros9
At this point you are ready to rock. To build all of NitrOS9 including things you almost certainly don't want:
make dsk
Alternatively you can first change to the directory containing the system you'd like to build, for instance:
export NITROS9DIR=$PWD cd level2/coco3 make dsk
Or just stay in the top folder and specify a "port" (coco2, coco3, coco3_6309 etc):
make dsk PORTS=coco3
Wait a bit, and with any luck you'll have some nice fresh nitros9 .dsk files.
Note: Your nitros9 build directory is accessible at C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\src\nitros9 from Windows.