Night DOS Kernel VirtualBox Development Kit

[Mercury Thirteen]

I put together an archive in 7z format which contains two VirtualBox hard drive images to help folks interested in developing the Night DOS kernel get their virtual machine set up quickly and efficiently. All you need to do it extract the archive using 7Zip and follow the instructions it the included readme file. GCC and NASM are already included, as well as a batch file to automatically build the kernel and copy it to the proper place for testing. It's everything you need to develop the kernel in a native DOS environment, all in one place. You can download it from the miscellaneous folder of the Development branch of the kernel's repo.

[Antony]

Nice,

I am working in Cygwin and building a cross compiler, after reading up on DJGPP, I will need to rebuild the GCC toolchain to use COFF (I used ELF).

Not much of a problem, just a little make clean and a restart. 

I'm going to bed.

[Antony]

COFF wasn't an option, so I had to switch back to ELF (in Cygwin) for an output format. 

Everything I'm reading suggests having a cross compiler as it make things easier.

We'll see.

[Mercury Thirteen]

This development kit is deprecated, as current kernel builds are being created from within a Linux environment and can be run directly from the floppy image made by build.sh.