Building the UNIXv6 (xv6) operating system using Clang as a learning experience.

Work in Progress... these are my notes so far...

Why? Because.

I've run into xv6 a few times and always wanted to poke around with it. My two goals are:

• Build and run it on OS/X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
• Change the build system so as to support compilation with Clang just for kicks My environment is a MacBook Pro where I'm running 10.8 and using Homebrew. I found this article useful as a starting point for building on OSX.

Configuration

1. Install Xcode. After installing Xcode install the Command Line Tools from the Downloads section of Xcode's preferences. I've installed Xcode Version 4.5 (4G182).

2. Install Homebrew

3. Install pre-requisites for building xv6

   $ brew install glib gmp mpfr pkgconfig ppl
   $ brew install libmpc --use-llvm
   $ brew install qemu --use-gcc

4. Install GNU binutils

   $ cd /tmp
   $ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.22.tar.gz
   $ tar -xvzf binutils-2.22.tar.gz
   $ cd binutils-2.22`
   $ ./configure --target=i386-jos-elf --disable-nls --prefix=/opt/gnu
   $ make

5. Install GCC 4.5 via Homebrew

   $ cd /tmp
   $ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.7.2/gcc-4.7.2.tar.gz
   $ tar -xvzf gcc-4.7.2.tar.gz
   $ cd gcc-4.7.2
   $ ./configure --target=i386-jos-elf --disable-nls --without-headers --with-newlib --disable-threads --disable-shared --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --with-system-zlib --disable-lto --with-gmp=/usr/local --enable-languages=c --prefix=/opt/gnu
   $ LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib make
   $ make install

Install and build xv6 with GCC

$ git clone git://pdos.csail.mit.edu/xv6/xv6.git
cd xv6
make qemu-nox

Changes to support Clang

Building with Clang