Hard Build System: Difference between revisions

** Decision: Where to install the programs.

* Prepare a [[System Root]] containing the standard library headers (needed to make a [[Hosted GCC Cross-Compiler]]).

** Decision: What processor architecture is used.

* Build and install a cross toolchain:

 

An Easy Build System is responsible for as much as possible, avoiding any user effort. Degrees of this exist, of course. The ultimate easy build system is when the user blindly pipes an URL into an administrative shell:

download-to-stdout http://example.com/myos.sh | sudo sh

 

It'll attempt to do as much work as possible to reliably understand the local operating system. It'll figure out what software needs to be installed, detect the distro and install the correct packages, download and compile source code if needed, might make global changes if needed, and generally try to pick sensible defaults. The script will be very complex because the systems out there are very different. The user can merely hope it works and doesn't screw up the local system too much.

=== Articles ===

* [[Meaty Skeleton]] - A minimal operating system template with a hard build system.

 

=== External Links ===

* [http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html GNU Make manual] ([http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.pdf PDF] is [https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html freely] available as well)

 

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