This is the repository for the hobby operating system Quinn for more information please visit my website: http://quinn-os.com/

How do I get set up?

Make sure you have the prerequisits to build gcc, binutils and newlib, and NASM.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev libisl-dev libcloog-isl-dev libmpc-dev texinfo nasm git wget make g++

Download the latest toolchain builder script. This will download the source, compiler, binutils and newlib into a directory called Quinn in your home directory.

https://bitbucket.org/apamment/quinn-os/raw/master/make_toolchain.sh

Once the toolchain has been downloaded, it will also set your path to include:

$HOME/Quinn/cross/bin

This is where your toolchain lives, if you close the terminal or open a new one you will have to issue the command:

export PATH=$HOME/Quinn/cross/bin:$PATH

To build the kernel, you will need issue the following commands:

cd $HOME/Quinn/src/quinn-os/
make

This will build a kernel called kernel.bin

To build the userland (and some static libraries the userland requires) issue the command

./make_userland.sh

This will build the userland and place the nessecary files into:

$HOME/Quinn/fsroot

Place all these files with the kernel onto a FAT formatted partition / disk image, and configure grub to boot with the following:

menuentry "QUINN 1024x768" {
    multiboot /kernel.bin
    module /fatfs.img
    boot
}

That should be enough information to get you up and running.