Creating an Operating System: Difference between revisions

 

=== Porting Software ===

 

While not all pieces of software is easy to port, most Unix software comes with a autoconf-generated configure script. You can provide these scripts with the --host=mycpu-myos option and if your operating system offers the needed features, you can cross-compile the software onto your operating system. You already met examples of how to port software when setting up the OS-specific toolchain. While the difficulity of cross-compiling software differs greatly, you will like be using the same process for adapting new packages.