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FENIX - Fenris' UNIX(-like)
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===========================
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FENIX is Kat's pet project to create a fully POSIX-compliant UNIX from scratch.
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It's a big endeavor, but she's nothing if not bold.
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This repository houses some of the project-wide stuff. It should also have the
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other bits inside of it, but Kat hasn't figured out how to properly manage
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subrepositories yet. Included in this repo are the various notes Kat's taken
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on how she'd like to make this operating system and the various bits of the
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build script used to compile a working OS image, including stuff for creating
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a working cross compiler.
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Credit where credit is due, the build system is taken from the Meaty Skeleton
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tutorial over on the OSDev Wiki (https://wiki.osdev.org/Meaty_Skeleton). The
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cross-compiler test code, similarly, is based off of the Bare Bones tutorial
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over there. Everything else is project-original. The cross-compiler build
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script was written by Kat and, well, the notes are all Kat's ramblings.
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Building
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--------
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If you'd like to build FENIX, first, make sure to download the kernel and libc
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repositories into folders named "kernel" and "libc". Additionally, make sure
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you've successfully built the cross-compiler and added ~/opt-test/cross (or
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wherever you've install the cross-compiler to) to your PATH. From there, you
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should just need to run `build.sh`. If you'd like an ISO, run `iso.sh` and if
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you'd like to test it using `qemu-system-i386`, simply run `qemu.sh`.
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Portability
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The build scripts should run on any system that supports the syntax used and on
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which you can build the cross-compiler. (They've not been vetted for running on
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pure sh, so if you'd like to check on that, that'd be appreciated.) The
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cross-compiler should build on any system on which the dependencies are
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supported. FENIX itself is currently limited to x86, and has only been tested
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in QEMU, so it may or may not work on whatever real hardware you wanna run it
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on. The notes can be viewed by anything that can view a text file.
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Copyright
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Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 by Katlynn Richey
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FENIX is free software. Feel free to modify and/or distribute it!
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See the file COPYING for more details.
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