User:Tjmonk15/WSL Notes

Random Notes

• Sot 100% working yet on my end (still fighting with a lack of grub, and the best way to solve that)
• WSL is running Ubuntu 14.04
• WSL does not have an install of GRUB (GRUB Download for git clone command)
• WSL has a rather out of date version of GCC install by default (4.8.2)
• To build GCC need bison, flex, byacc, as well as the prereqs mentioned on GCC_Cross-Compiler#Downloading_the_Source_Code
• Need to update pre-built gcc, Server Fault - How do I use the latest GCC on Ubuntu? use gcc-6 instead of gcc-4.9
• Recommended list of packges to apt-get before starting
  • git
  • bison
  • flex
  • byacc
  • build-essential
  • gcc-6 (After adding PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test)
  • libgmp3-dev
  • libmpfr-dev
  • libmpc-dev
  • texinfo
  • grub2-common
  • xorriso
  • grub
• Optional/Helpful packages to apt-get
  • genisoimage (provides "isoinfo" which can be helpful for sanity checking iso files)
  • nasm (if you prefer Intel syntax over AT&T)
• Bare_Bones does work with all prereqs mentioned above. (Still testing solutions to grub, but building the kernel and running in QEMU with -kernel is confirmed to work by myself)