Compiling application in Linux

1. Installing SVN

Installing subversion:

sudo apt-get install subversion

Getting sources:

cd ~

mkdir kolibrios

cd kolibrios/

svn co svn://kolibrios.org

2. Installing FASM

Downloading:

wget http://flatassembler.net/fasm-1.71.22.tgz

Extracting:

tar zxvf ./fasm-1.71.22.tgz

rm ./fasm-1.71.22.tgz

sudo mv fasm/ /opt

Editing PATH variable:

sudo nano /etc/profile

Inserting two strings into profile:

PATH=$PATH:/opt/fasm

export PATH

After logging out and logging in we can see fasm in the PATH variable:

3. Downloading KolibriOS

Downloading:

wget http://builds.kolibrios.org/eng/latest-img.7z

Extracting:

sudo apt-get install p7zip

p7zip -d ./latest-img.7z

4. Compiling a KolibriOS program

cd ~/kolibrios/kolibrios.org/programs/system/run/trunk

echo lang fix en > lang.inc

fasm run.asm run

5. Copying a compiled program to disc

sudo mkdir /media/floppy1/

sudo mount -o loop ~/kolibrios/kolibri.img /media/floppy1/

sudo mkdir /media/floppy1/my

sudo cp ~/kolibrios/kolibrios.org/programs/system/run/trunk/run /media/floppy1/my

sudo umount /media/floppy1/

6. Running a program in VirtualBox

Installing Oracle VM VirtualBox:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Creating virtual machine:

vboxmanage createvm --name "kolibrios" --register

vboxmanage storagectl "kolibrios" --name "Floppy" --add floppy

vboxmanage storageattach "kolibrios" --storagectl "Floppy" --port 0 --device 0 --type fdd --medium ~/kolibrios/kolibri.img

Running KolibriOS:

vboxmanage startvm "kolibrios" &