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Originally Posted by
Parodper
So how would i setup the system for compiling?
You start with, say, a Linux system. Put the sources there and use the Linux compiler -
gcc to compile the sources. You should start with the compiler suite itself, (some) standard libraries, the linker, etc.. This is what hicksd8 means by "toolchain". Now you have a SysV-C-compiler that is compiled fo Linux. This is called "seeding", because ideally a compiler should be able to compile its own sources. That is: when you write a C-compiler in C you write it, then take another C-compiler and compile it, take that executable and use it to compile it again the original sources, then use that executable to compile it again. You then have a code that is compiled by the executable resulting from the very code its source has produced. From then on you use (the compiled) version X-1 to compile version X, etc.. Here you do basically the same for the whole OS.
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Originally Posted by
Parodper
Also, i'm not building one from scratch and i think that the source code is complete.
Of course you build from scratch. You start with the sources for the OS and you want to have a compiled, running and installed OS. That is as much "from scratch" as it can get.
I hope this helps.
bakunin