How to install BareMetal on OS X?

[Johnnie Deer]

Hi-

I'm very interested in BareMetal and exokernels in general. However, I'm having some trouble installing BareMetal on my Mac. When I clone the baremetal repository and run ./setup.sh, these are my results: 

Cloning into 'BMFS'...

remote: Counting objects: 174, done.

remote: Total 174 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 174

Receiving objects: 100% (174/174), 52.44 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (78/78), done.

Checking connectivity... done.

Cloning into 'Pure64'...

remote: Counting objects: 448, done.

remote: Total 448 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 448

Receiving objects: 100% (448/448), 178.53 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (250/250), done.

Checking connectivity... done.

Cloning into 'BareMetal-OS'...

remote: Counting objects: 2076, done.

remote: Total 2076 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 2076

Receiving objects: 100% (2076/2076), 1.12 MiB | 499.00 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (1056/1056), done.

Checking connectivity... done.

128+0 records in

128+0 records out

134217728 bytes transferred in 2.211452 secs (60692128 bytes/sec)

configure.ac:7: installing './compile'

configure.ac:3: installing './install-sh'

configure.ac:3: installing './missing'

src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/local/bin/gmkdir -p

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... no

checking for nawk... no

checking for awk... awk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether make supports nested variables... yes

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables...

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed

checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... none needed

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep

checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/types.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes

checking for string.h... (cached) yes

checking for strings.h... (cached) yes

checking for size_t... yes

checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes

checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes

checking for memset... yes

checking for strcasecmp... yes

checking that generated files are newer than configure... done

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating Makefile

config.status: creating src/Makefile

config.status: creating config.h

config.status: executing depfiles commands

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive

Making all in src

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT bmfs.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/bmfs.Tpo -c -o bmfs.o bmfs.c

mv -f .deps/bmfs.Tpo .deps/bmfs.Po

gcc  -g -O2   -o bmfs bmfs.o  

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

Formatting Disk Image

Writing Master Boot Record

1+0 records in

1+0 records out

512 bytes transferred in 0.000017 secs (29826162 bytes/sec)

Writing Pure64+Software

44+0 records in

44+0 records out

22528 bytes transferred in 0.000092 secs (244790882 bytes/sec)

However, I'm not 100% sure if I have Newlib installed. When I run ./run.sh I just get a black qemu window with a white flashing cursor. Any ideas?

Regards,

Mats 

[Ian Seyler]

Mac OS X has not been tested as a build environment so I'm not sure what the problem might be. I know that the version of NASM that comes with the OS X dev tools does not support 64-bit code so Pure64 and BareMetal were probably not compiled properly.

Please run 'asm -v' from a terminal window and let me know what version you have.

-Ian

[Johnnie Deer]

I read about that, and I updated. My version is 2.11.06, but I guess I can set it up on Linux.

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